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kaksongen

This is a Stata package that computes the decomposition of the impact of taxation on social welfare, according to Ledić, Rubil, and Urban's (2022) generalisation of Kakwani and Son (2021).

Installation

To install the package from within Stata, issue the command:

net install kaksongen, replace from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/irubil/kaksongen/main)

Latest version

kaksongen.ado: July 2022
kaksongen.sthlp: December 2022

Authors

Marko Ledić, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, markoledic@gmail.com
Ivica Rubil, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, irubil@gmail.com
Ivica Urban, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb, urbanivica@gmail.com

If you have a question on the current version, or have an idea of how to improve it, or you encounter a bug, please write to any of the authors.

Please cite the package as follows: Ledić, M., Rubil, I. & Urban, I. (2022). KAKSONGEN: Stata module for computing the decomposition of the social welfare impact of taxation. Available at: https://github.com/irubil/kaksongen.

Acknowledgements

The package uses Philippe Van Kerm's package sgini.

The creation of this package has been fully supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project “Impact of taxes and benefits on income distribution and economic efficiency” (ITBIDEE) (IP-2019-04-9924).

References

Ledić, M., Rubil, I., & Urban, I. (2022). Tax progressivity and social welfare with a continuum of inequality views. International Tax and Public Finance.

Kakwani, N., & Son, H.H. (2021). Normative Measures of Tax Progressivity: an International Comparison. Journal of Economic Inequality 19, 185–212.

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