Income Inequality and Tax Policy for South African Race Groups
计算了南非不同种族群体的需求弹性、政府收入最大化税率及税收超额负担，发现香烟和牛奶是白人相对黑人贡献更多政府收入的商品。
This paper calculates elasticities of demand for race groups in South Africa, government-revenue-maximizing tax rates, and excess burdens associated with taxes. A change in tax policy can be the political engine of income redistribution with appropriate taxes and subsidies on different commodities. This paper compares both semiparametric and parametric estimators with the censored least absolute deviation and censored maximum likelihood in calculating demand equations and elasticities. It is found that cigarettes and milk are the two commodities that generate the most government revenues from whites per unit of government revenues from blacks. © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.