David Coady
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3604878 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Coady |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Coady |
| FIRMA | COADY D |
| AFILIACIONES | International Monetary Fund |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7564-1687 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Stop Talking about Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles
It is widely believed that we are facing a problem, even a crisis, caused by so‐called “echo chambers” and “filter bubbles.” Here, David Coady argues that this belief is mistaken. There is no such problem, and we should refrain from using these neologisms altogether. They serve no useful purpose, since there is nothing we can say with them that we cannot say equally well or better without them. Furthermore, they cause a variety of harms, includin…
Is It Virtuous to Love Truth and Hate Falsehood
There is a great deal of academic literature, much of it coming from the social sciences and from social epistemology, which presents itself as addressing a very general problem: the problem of excessive falsehood. Falsehood comes in two general forms: false statements and false beliefs. Of course, falsehood, in both these forms, has always been with us, but it is often supposed to be on the rise. I will argue that there is no new or growing prob…
Social versus Individual Work Preferences
The benchmark optimal income taxation model of Mirrlees (1971) finds that the optimal marginal income tax rate (MIT) is always non-negative. This paper extends the benchmark model to allow for differences in social and individual work preferences while maintaining its assumption that individuals are rational. The theoretical and simulation analyses show that under this model, when the government places a higher social weight on work than individu…
Conspiracy theory as heresy
Ever since the term ‘conspiracy theory’ was first popularised by the philosopher Sir Karl Popper in the 1950s, conspiracy theories have had a bad reputation. To call a theory ‘a conspiracy theory’
Conspiracy Theories
Universal income in developing countries
Scientific whaling and how philosophy of science can help break the international deadlock
Despite widespread public interest on the topic of whaling, there is at present relatively little work on how philosophy might contribute to analysis of the status of whaling in international law. When philosophers have looked at the topic of whaling, they have confined their attention to a fairly narrow set of ethical questions, such as whether international law should permit certain forms of traditional indigenous whaling or extend legal rights…
A Companion to Applied Philosophy
Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy…
How Large Are Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Income Inequality and Fiscal Policy
The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies
Two Concepts of Epistemic Injustice
I describe two concepts of epistemic injustice. The first of these concepts is explained through a critique of Alvin Goldman's veritistic social epistemology. The second is closely based on Miranda Fricker's concept of epistemic injustice. I argue that there is a tension between these two forms of epistemic injustice and tentatively suggest some ways of resolving the tension.
Targeting Performance under Self-selection and Administrative Targeting Methods
We evaluate the contributions of self‐selection and administrative targeting to program targeting performance using unique household survey data collected for the evaluation of a Mexican social program that has acted as a regional prototype. Both forms of targeting improve targeting performance, but administrative selection based on proxy‐means testing plays a crucial role in reducing total program coverage (to meet a budget constraint) while mai…
Are the Welfare Losses from Imperfect Targeting Important
We quantify and compare the size of the welfare losses arising from the use of alternative ‘imperfect’ welfare indicators as substitutes for the conventionally preferred consumption indicator. We find that the size of the welfare losses associated with different indicators varies considerably. An asset‐based index and the share of food as targeting indicators were found to have the highest welfare losses relative to all other targeting indicators…
The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs
Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Targeting of Transfers in Developing CountriesReview of Lessons and ExperienceAuthors/Editors: David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John HoddinottDavid Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinotthttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5769-7SectionsAboutPDF (1.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Drawing on a database of more than one hundred anti-poverty inte…
Targeting Outcomes Redux
A newly constructed comprehensive database of 122 targeted antipoverty interventions in 48 countries is used to examine the contested issue of the efficacy of targeting interventions in developing countries. Though the median program transfers 25 percent more to poor individuals (those in the bottom two quintiles) than would universal allocation, a quarter of the interventions are regressive. Targeting is better in richer countries, in countries …
Evaluating Transfer Programmes within a General Equilibrium Framework
We develop a general equilibrium model for evaluating domestically financed transfer programmes and derive analytical expressions which provide a framework for combining results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data. We separate the welfare impact into three components, i.e. redistribution, reallocative, and distortionary effects. We show how these are subsumed within one parameter, the cost of public funds…
An Empirical Analysis of Fertilizer Use in Pakistan
One of the stylized facts in developing countries is the wide variation in agricultural per-acre input and output levels across farm households. Here we focus on the variation in the level of chemical fertilizer applied, in particular to high-yielding wheat. The model used to explain the variation in fertilizer input across farms incorporates the process by which 'zeros' are generated, in particular differentiating between households who do not a…
How Large Are Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs
Conspiracy theory as heresy
Ever since the term ‘conspiracy theory’ was first popularised by the philosopher Sir Karl Popper in the 1950s, conspiracy theories have had a bad reputation. To call a theory ‘a conspiracy theory’
Evaluating Transfer Programmes within a General Equilibrium Framework
We develop a general equilibrium model for evaluating domestically financed transfer programmes and derive analytical expressions which provide a framework for combining results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data. We separate the welfare impact into three components, i.e. redistribution, reallocative, and distortionary effects. We show how these are subsumed within one parameter, the cost of public funds…
Targeting Performance under Self-selection and Administrative Targeting Methods
We evaluate the contributions of self‐selection and administrative targeting to program targeting performance using unique household survey data collected for the evaluation of a Mexican social program that has acted as a regional prototype. Both forms of targeting improve targeting performance, but administrative selection based on proxy‐means testing plays a crucial role in reducing total program coverage (to meet a budget constraint) while mai…
An Empirical Analysis of Fertilizer Use in Pakistan
One of the stylized facts in developing countries is the wide variation in agricultural per-acre input and output levels across farm households. Here we focus on the variation in the level of chemical fertilizer applied, in particular to high-yielding wheat. The model used to explain the variation in fertilizer input across farms incorporates the process by which 'zeros' are generated, in particular differentiating between households who do not a…
An Empirical Analysis of Fertilizer Use in Pakistan
One of the stylized facts in developing countries is the wide variation in agricultural per-acre input and output levels across farm households. Here we focus on the variation in the level of chemical fertilizer applied, in particular to high-yielding wheat. The model used to explain the variation in fertilizer input across farms incorporates the process by which 'zeros' are generated, in particular differentiating between households who do not a…
Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Targeting of Transfers in Developing CountriesReview of Lessons and ExperienceAuthors/Editors: David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John HoddinottDavid Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinotthttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5769-7SectionsAboutPDF (1.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Drawing on a database of more than one hundred anti-poverty inte…
Targeting Outcomes Redux
A newly constructed comprehensive database of 122 targeted antipoverty interventions in 48 countries is used to examine the contested issue of the efficacy of targeting interventions in developing countries. Though the median program transfers 25 percent more to poor individuals (those in the bottom two quintiles) than would universal allocation, a quarter of the interventions are regressive. Targeting is better in richer countries, in countries …
Evaluating Transfer Programmes within a General Equilibrium Framework
We develop a general equilibrium model for evaluating domestically financed transfer programmes and derive analytical expressions which provide a framework for combining results from a computable general equilibrium model with disaggregated household data. We separate the welfare impact into three components, i.e. redistribution, reallocative, and distortionary effects. We show how these are subsumed within one parameter, the cost of public funds…
The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programs
Are the Welfare Losses from Imperfect Targeting Important
We quantify and compare the size of the welfare losses arising from the use of alternative ‘imperfect’ welfare indicators as substitutes for the conventionally preferred consumption indicator. We find that the size of the welfare losses associated with different indicators varies considerably. An asset‐based index and the share of food as targeting indicators were found to have the highest welfare losses relative to all other targeting indicators…
Targeting Performance under Self-selection and Administrative Targeting Methods
We evaluate the contributions of self‐selection and administrative targeting to program targeting performance using unique household survey data collected for the evaluation of a Mexican social program that has acted as a regional prototype. Both forms of targeting improve targeting performance, but administrative selection based on proxy‐means testing plays a crucial role in reducing total program coverage (to meet a budget constraint) while mai…
Two Concepts of Epistemic Injustice
I describe two concepts of epistemic injustice. The first of these concepts is explained through a critique of Alvin Goldman's veritistic social epistemology. The second is closely based on Miranda Fricker's concept of epistemic injustice. I argue that there is a tension between these two forms of epistemic injustice and tentatively suggest some ways of resolving the tension.
Income Inequality and Fiscal Policy
The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies
A Companion to Applied Philosophy
Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy…
How Large Are Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Scientific whaling and how philosophy of science can help break the international deadlock
Despite widespread public interest on the topic of whaling, there is at present relatively little work on how philosophy might contribute to analysis of the status of whaling in international law. When philosophers have looked at the topic of whaling, they have confined their attention to a fairly narrow set of ethical questions, such as whether international law should permit certain forms of traditional indigenous whaling or extend legal rights…
Conspiracy Theories
Universal income in developing countries
Conspiracy theory as heresy
Ever since the term ‘conspiracy theory’ was first popularised by the philosopher Sir Karl Popper in the 1950s, conspiracy theories have had a bad reputation. To call a theory ‘a conspiracy theory’
Social versus Individual Work Preferences
The benchmark optimal income taxation model of Mirrlees (1971) finds that the optimal marginal income tax rate (MIT) is always non-negative. This paper extends the benchmark model to allow for differences in social and individual work preferences while maintaining its assumption that individuals are rational. The theoretical and simulation analyses show that under this model, when the government places a higher social weight on work than individu…
Is It Virtuous to Love Truth and Hate Falsehood
There is a great deal of academic literature, much of it coming from the social sciences and from social epistemology, which presents itself as addressing a very general problem: the problem of excessive falsehood. Falsehood comes in two general forms: false statements and false beliefs. Of course, falsehood, in both these forms, has always been with us, but it is often supposed to be on the rise. I will argue that there is no new or growing prob…
Stop Talking about Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles
It is widely believed that we are facing a problem, even a crisis, caused by so‐called “echo chambers” and “filter bubbles.” Here, David Coady argues that this belief is mistaken. There is no such problem, and we should refrain from using these neologisms altogether. They serve no useful purpose, since there is nothing we can say with them that we cannot say equally well or better without them. Furthermore, they cause a variety of harms, includin…
Economics (10 obras) · Public economics (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (5 obras) · Welfare (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras)