TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yitzhaki,Shlomo
AU  - Slemrod,Joel
TI  - Welfare Dominance:  An Application to Commodity Taxation
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2451
PY  - 1987
Y2  - December 1987
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2451
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2451.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Shlomo Yitzhaki
Department of Economics
Hebrew University
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
ISRAEL
Tel: 972-2-659-2201
Fax: 972-2-652-2319
E-Mail: shlomo.yitzhaki@huji.ac.il

Joel Slemrod
University of Michigan Business School
701 Tappan Street
Room R5396
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1234
Tel: 734/936-3914
Fax: 734-615-4323
E-Mail: jslemrod@umich.edu
AB  - In this paper, we suggest a method which enables the user to identify commodities that all individuals who can agree on certain weak assumptions with regard to the social welfare function will agree upon as worth subsidizing or taxing in the absence of efficiency considerations. The method is based on an extension of the stochastic dominance criteria and is illustrated using data from Israel.
ER  -