"Policy Instruments for Sustainable Urban Regeneration: Adaptive Reuse of Abandoned Spaces and Tax Credits in the US"

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-32
Author(s):  
Ji Yong Seung ◽  
Choi Eugene
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
The Us ◽  
Abandoned Spaces

Canada

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua T. McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cash Benefits ◽  
Child Tax Credit ◽  
Family Allowances ◽  
Initial Change

Chapter 4 examines how Canadian policymakers’ renewed promise to tackle child poverty translated into the Child Tax Benefit, the nonrefundable Child Tax Credit, and the Working Income Tax Benefit. Whereas the logic of tax relief served as the springboard for fiscalization in the US, the logic of income supplementation drove the process in Canada. This difference had important implications for the shape and scope of Canadian tax credits, enabling them to significantly reduce child poverty relative to the much weaker outcomes in the US. Family allowances offered policymakers an alternative to welfare as the primary method of delivering cash benefits to children. Canadian policymakers, including conservative policymakers and profamily groups, saw expanding child tax credits as a way to “take children off welfare” by redirecting benefits through a nonstigmatizing program. The initial change occurred under the Progressive Conservatives in 1992 and was consolidated under the Liberals in 1997.

Optimal Taxation of Families: Mirrlees meets Becker*

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Musab Kurnaz
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Optimal Taxation ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Welfare Gains ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
Parental Time ◽  
The Us

Abstract This paper studies optimal taxation of families—a combination of an income tax schedule and child tax credits. Child-rearing requires both goods and parental time, which distinctly impact the design of optimal child tax credits. In the quantitative analysis, I calibrate my model to the US economy and show that the optimal child tax credits are U-shaped in income and are decreasing in family size. In particular, the optimal credits decrease in the first nine deciles of the income distribution and then increase thereafter. Implementing the optimum yields large welfare gains.

scholarly journals Taxes, Transfers, and Women’s Labor Supply in the United States

2017 ◽  
pp. 452-480
Author(s):  
Melanie Guldi ◽  
Lucie Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
The Us ◽  
Tax And Transfer System ◽  
Women’S Labor Supply

The US tax and transfer system generates revenue and provides safety net programs that move millions out of poverty. Since women are more likely to live in poverty, they are more likely to qualify for means-tested transfers. The structure of taxation in the United States often penalizes secondary earners, who are usually women. These programs alter work incentives and consequently may affect labor supply decisions. In this chapter, we examine the empirical evidence on the effects of taxes and transfers on the labor supply of women in the United States. We show that much has changed since 1990, with the biggest shift being a change from cash transfers via welfare to refundable tax credits to workers. Overall, the evidence we review shows women have higher labor force participation and are less responsive to changes in after-tax wages than they were before 1990, but the labor supply effects vary substantially by program considered.

scholarly journals Educational Exchanges in Public Diplomacy: Russian and International Experience

2014 ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
A. Dolinkiy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Us ◽  
Peace Settlement ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Modern Technologies

Education exchanges are a key element of public diplomacy for most countries that considered effective in that domain of foreign policy activities. Education exchanges are attributed an important role in the post-war peace settlement between Germany and France and in determining the outcome of the Cold war. Relevant aspects of public diplomacy remain key elements of foreign policy instruments of the US, Germany and many other countries. Russia has been increasingly active in public diplomacy in the past decade and the role of education exchanges has been increasing which is also demonstrated by a growing number of expert publications on the subject. However the strategy, the quality of organization and the use of modern technologies remain at a relatively low level which leads to an inefficient use of resources. Priority issues that can be a core of Russia's public diplomacy (and foreign policy in general). Moreover, systemic work would be required to evaluate efficiency of current and complete projects which would allow determine effectiveness of programs and appropriateness of resources used. Education exchanges need to be targeted at both bringing international students to Russia and assisting Russian students to study internationally and professors to teach abroad. Finally, international best practices show that there is a need to maintain connections with international exchanges alumni and assist them to maintain connections with each other including with the use of modern technologies.

Reconsidering CCS in the US fossil‐fuel fired electricity industry under section 45Q tax credits

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1288-1301
Author(s):  
Richard A. Esposito ◽  
Vello A. Kuuskraa ◽  
Charles G. Rossman ◽  
Michele M. Corser
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Electricity Industry ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Spencer Bastani ◽  
Sören Blomquist ◽  
Luca Micheletto
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
Child Care Subsidies ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
Optimal Income Taxation ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Study Child

We study child care subsidies in a Mirrleesian optimal tax framework where parents choose both the quantity and quality of child care. Child care services not only enable parents to work, but also contribute to children’s human capital. We examine the conditions under which child care expenditures should be encouraged or discouraged by the tax system under different assumptions regarding the available policy instruments. Using a quantitative model calibrated to the US economy, we illustrate the possibility that child care expenditures should be taxed rather than subsidized, and we discuss the merits of public provision schemes for child care. (JEL H21, H24, H41, J13)

scholarly journals Adaptive Reuse of Apartments as Heritage Assets in the Seoul Station Urban Regeneration Area

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jungwon Yoon ◽  
Jihye Lee
Keyword(s):  
Korean War ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Building Conditions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Apartment Complexes

Apartments were crucial solutions to provide sufficient dwellings and to improve residential environment quality in the period after the Korean War. Thirty years after the first rush of apartment construction, many of those apartments have been demolished. However, several small-scale apartment complexes or single-building apartments without collective estates were not included in reconstruction efforts due to property, ownership, and reconstruction feasibility issues. Four such apartments remain in the Seoul Station Urban Regeneration Area. Although they are considered severely deteriorated, their architectural, historical, and cultural heritage values warrant inclusion in the Seoul Future Heritage list. From the perspective of urban regeneration, these apartments should be targeted for revitalization not only to preserve their originality but to improve the quality of sustainable building conditions and operations. In this study, we examine Choongjeong Apartment, Hoehyeon Civic Apartment, St.Joseph Apartment, and Seosomun Apartment in terms of balance among six heritage values and their improvement needs, as well as possible revitalization strategies that support sustainable urban regeneration in the area. We argue that their physical conditions can be brought up to applicable building codes, if financial support is forthcoming and numerous decision-makers allow. However, sustainable revitalization of apartments requires examination of factors affecting adaptive reuse. Through a literature and data collection review within an analysis framework, we analyze factors and issues for adaptive reuse of the four apartments. It is expected that the findings of this paper will provide insight into the role of various actors determining and taking actions for strategic physical interventions and change of uses.

scholarly journals Instrument policy mix and firm size: is there complementarity between R&D subsidies and R&D tax credits?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tea Petrin ◽  
Dragana Radicic
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
State Dependence ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Policy Mix ◽  
Process Innovations ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Product And Process

AbstractNowadays, a rising number of evaluations investigates a multifaceted concept of the policy mix. Our study specifically focuses on the mix of two most frequently used supply-side instruments–R&D subsidies and R&D tax credits. Drawing on the longitudinal sample of Spanish manufacturing firms, we investigate whether there is a complementary interaction between these policy instruments with respect to product and process innovations. Moreover, by employing a dynamic random-effects probit estimator, we account for the persistence of innovation and endogeneity of public support. The results, that are separately estimated for SMEs and large firms, uniformly show evidence of no interplay between two policy instruments either in SMEs or large firms. However, among factors that influence the propensity to product and process innovations, by far, the largest effect is generated by true state dependence. These findings provide some policy implications for fostering product and process innovations in the long run.

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