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Working Paper

The Equity of Social Services Provided to Children and Senior Citizens

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A consideration of the degree of equity in the U.S. government’s treatment of children vis-a-vis adults, particularly the elderly. The authors show that given current policy, today’s and tomorrow’s children could end up paying as much as 70 percent of their lifetime income to the government, whereas the current elderly will pay only about 25 percent on average.
12.01.1993ISSN 2573-7953 WP 93-11DOI 10.26509/frbc-wp-199311

Working Papers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment on research in progress. They may not have been subject to the formal editorial review accorded official Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Federal Reserve System.

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Kotlikoff, Laurence, and Jagadeesh Gokhale. 1993. “The Equity of Social Services Provided to Children and Senior Citizens.” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Working Paper No. 93-11. https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-wp-199311