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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Soup Kitchen with Wait Times: In-Kind Transfer<br />

Now suppose we impose wait time of 51 minutes<br />

R leaves - not worth it to him for $50 in food - gets U p = 0<br />

P gets utility of 200 − 25.5 = 174.5<br />

Social welfare with in-kind transfer (wait time) greater than cash<br />

transfer (no wait time)<br />

Targeting gains outweighing effi ciency losses from ordeal<br />

Scope for such targeting depends upon degree of heterogeneity in<br />

preferences<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 4: Optimal Taxation 117 / 121

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