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Record W202557755

Assessing Expenditure and Tax Reform Measures: A Review

2004· review· en· W202557755 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jack Mintz, Thomas A. Wilson

Bibliographic record

VenueRePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2004
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Policy and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSubsidyPanel dataCapital expenditurePublic economicsHuman capitalEconomicsActivity-based costingGovernment (linguistics)Government spendingBusinessLabour economicsFinanceEconomic growthAccountingWelfare
DOInot available

Abstract

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Overview of The Report on the Panel on the Role of Government(2004). This Report includes recommendations for a number of new spending initiatives, as well as regulatory and tax reforms. The purpose of this review is to appraise the fiscal feasibility of implementing the Panel's recommendations over a medium term (10 to 12 year) period. The main thrust of the Panel's recommendations is for the enhancement of human capital in Ontario; indeed the sub-title of their report is "Creating a Human Capital Society in Ontario." Increased spending on education accounts for the lion?s share of the new spending initiatives in the Panel?s Report, as is shown in Table 1. When fully implemented, the Panel's recommendations would entail increased annual spending on post-secondary education of $1.3 billion. Other spending initiatives include a childcare subsidy, costing about $150 million, and a rent subsidy for low-income persons, also costing about $150 million. In current dollars the total cost of the Panel's new spending initiatives would be about $2.7 billion when fully implemented. However, the total cost will likely increase in the future with inflation and the growth of the relevant demographic age groups. Taking into account those two factors, the total cost of the panel's recommendations would rise by about 2 to 3 percent per year.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.982
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0100.020
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.107
GPT teacher head0.429
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations0
Published2004
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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