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Equality of opportunity and optimal cash and in-kind policies

Gasparini, Leonardo et al · SEDICI UNLP · 2005

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Este trabajo examina el argumento para la provisión pública de ciertos bienes privados (e.g. educación y salud) basado en igualdad de oportunidades, mediante el estudio de la frontera de posibilidades de utilidad en una sociedad donde hay preferencias por la distribución de estos bienes. Cierto nivel de calidad de servicios de educación o salud se puede consumir gratis en el sector público, pero los individuos pueden optar por obtener dichos servicios del sector privado. Algunas de las conclusiones son: (i) una transferencia pura de efectivo es óptima cuando la redistribución de utilidad es suficientemente grande o pequeña; (ii) sí y sólo si tanto la preferencia de igualdad de oportunidades y la redistribución de utilidad son lo suficientemente grandes se puede justificar un programa en especie para toda la población; y (iii) aun cuando todos eligen este programa, puede ser óptimo hacer más redistribución aumentando el tamaño del programa. This paper examines the argument for public provision of certain private goods, like education and health, based on equality of opportunity by studying the utility possibility frontier of a society in which there is a concern for the distribution of these goods. A given quality of education or health services can be consumed for free in the public sector, but people can opt-out and purchase their desired quality levels in the private sector. Some of the conclusions are: (i) a pure cash transfer is optimal when the utility redistribution is either "sufficiently" small or large; (ii) if and only if both the equality-of-opportunity concern and the utility redistribution are large enough, can an in-kind program which attracts the whole population be justified; (iii) even when everybody chooses the in-kind program, it may be optimal to perform some additional utility redistribution by increasing the size of such program. Trabajo publicado en el <i>Journal of Public Economics</i> 90 (1-2): 143-169, January, 2006.

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Gasparini, L. E. A. (2005). Equality of opportunity and optimal cash and in-kind policies. http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3583

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Gasparini, L. E. A. 2005, Equality of opportunity and optimal cash and in-kind policies, SEDICI UNLP, available at: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3583 [Accessed 8 Aug. 2026].

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Equality of opportunity and optimal cash and in-kind policies
Author / contributors
Gasparini, Leonardo et al
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SEDICI UNLP
Publication year
2005
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English

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