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"There She Is, Your Ideal" Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors
Carpenter, Christopher; Churchill, Brandyn F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide novel evidence on the role of negative social comparisons in population health behaviors by exploiting variation in Miss America and Miss USA beauty pageant winners. We show that there was more front-page newspaper coverage and more pageant-related internet search behavior following a...
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Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing countries with a history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435161
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Trends in the School Lunch Program : Changes in Selection, Nutrition & Health
Bonomo, Therese; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
There has been significant media attention on the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the … nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes, using panel data on a nationally representative cohort of children, tracking them … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …
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The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates : Evidence from Randomized Tax Abatements in the DRC
Bergeron, Augustin; Tourek, Gabriel Z.; Weigel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates how tax rates and tax enforcement jointly impact fiscal capacity in low-income countries. We study a policy experiment in the D.R. Congo that randomly assigned 38,028 property owners to the status quo tax rate or to a rate reduction. This variation in tax liabilities...
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Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC
Bergeron, Augustin; Bessone, Pedro; Kabeya Kabeya, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The assignment of workers to tasks and teams is a key margin of firm productivity and a potential source of state effectiveness. This paper investigates whether a low-capacity state can increase its tax revenue by optimally assigning its tax collectors. We study the two-stage random assignment...
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Revenue Statistics in Asia: Japan (Edition 2018)
OECD - 2018
This dataset contains tax revenue collected by Japan. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income, property,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013525246
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Revenue Statistics in Africa: South Africa (Edition 2018)
OECD - 2018
This dataset contains tax revenue collected by South Africa. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013525251
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Revenue Statistics: Reference series (Edition 2020)
OECD - 2020
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Revenue Statistics: Luxembourg (Edition 2020)
OECD - 2020
This dataset contains tax revenue collected by Luxembourg. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income, property,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013525259
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Revenue Statistics: Chile (Edition 2017)
OECD - 2017
This dataset contains tax revenue collected by Chile. It provides detailed tax revenues by sector (Supranational, Federal or Central Government, State or Lander Government, Local Government, and Social Security Funds) and by specific tax, such as capital gains, profits and income, property,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013525277