https://hdl.handle.net/10680/1235 2022-09-24T04:30:13Z 2022-09-24T04:30:13Z Burns, Kate https://hdl.handle.net/10680/1239 2019-06-27T02:45:33Z 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Estimating the Economic Cost of Obesity in Canadian Populations Burns, Kate This study aims to provide a more complete description of who suffers most severely from obesity in terms of both the prevalence of the disease and its associated costs. Literature estimating the cost of obesity is often highly aggregated and combines data on all age groups, genders, and ethnicities. I disaggregate across relevant variables to identify the most troublesome obese populations in Canada in terms of economic cost. The second goal of my research is to consider how these specific Canadian populations (age groups, genders, and ethnicities) are expected to grow to gain a more accurate prediction of how the total economic cost of obesity will change in the near future and whether those costs should be deemed an epidemic for our economy.

2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Zohora, Fatima Tuz https://hdl.handle.net/10680/1238 2019-06-27T02:46:04Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

慷慨的福利和幸福:证据从Canada Zohora, Fatima Tuz This paper explores the association between provincial welfare generosity and well-being of poor Canadians. The well-being indicators include poverty incidence, depth of poverty, labor supply, time spent with kids, health status, happiness, and education. Using both macro and micro- level data over the years 1989 to 1996 and 1998 to 2009, I examine the link between welfare generosity and poverty. The micro-level information of General Social Survey (GSS) is used to correlate various indicators of well-being with measures of welfare generosity. The analysis of macro-level CANSIM data is used as a robustness check of the poverty estimation using GSS. In this study I considered total welfare generosity as well as the subcategories, social assistance and other social services spending, as the measure of welfare generosity. With regards to poverty, the result suggest no evidence of determinate relationship between total welfare generosity and poverty rate. However, generosity of social services is associated with a lower poverty rate, while generous income assistance is associated with a higher poverty rate. The total welfare generosity shows a significant association with reduction in employment rate and high school dropout rate among the poor. In the case of health, both total welfare generosity and social assistance appear as significant determinants of better health outcome of the poor. Receipt of other social services appear as a significant determinant of poor individuals time spent with kids and happiness. "ERDE Research Project"

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Olaitan, Veronica https://hdl.handle.net/10680/1237 2019-06-27T02:46:35Z 2016-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Informal Sector and Tax Revenue Drive: A Nigerian Case Study Olaitan, Veronica There has been a recent need to boost internally generated revenue in Nigeria due to the fall in the price of oil, upon which Nigeria has been dependent for revenue. The Nigerian government's attention has been drawn to the massive size of the informal sector from which little or no taxes are being collected. To resolve this discrepancy, it plans to introduce a presumptive tax regime aimed at taxing the firms in the informal sector. In this paper, I analyze the effect of different presumptive taxation policies on the size of the informal sector, tax revenue, output and welfare. Results show that an assessment in the form of proportional presumptive tax seems to be more efficient than a uniform lump-sum presumptive tax. However, I also show that in certain cases, the optimal policy for a government that cares about inequality would be a proportional presumptive tax with size-based "tax holiday" for informal firms who operate with less than a prescribed capital threshold.

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