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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

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Health and income: A robust comparison of Canada and the US

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...

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Tax Avoidance, Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth

Freire-Serén, María Jesús; Martí, Judith Panadés i - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

Human capital accumulation may negatively affect economic growth by increasing tax avoidance and reducing effective tax rates and productive public investment. This paper analyzes how the endogenous feedback between human capital accumulation and tax avoidance affects economic growth and...

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Tax Evasion, Technology Shocks, and the Cyclicality of Government Revenues

Caballé, Jordi; Panadés, Judith - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

This paper analyzes the behavior of the tax revenue to output ratio over the business cycle. In order to replicate the empirical evidence, we develop a simple model combining the standard Ak growth model with the tax evasion phenomenon. When individuals conceal part of their true income from the...

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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

and the social contract in a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual self-esteem and relative es …-teem for others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their productivities. The desired extent of redistribution … in which sentiments, labor supply and redistribution are simultaneously determined. The model has two types of equilibria …

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Redistributive Taxation with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan Mª; Kranich, Laurence - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual attitudes toward others are endogenously determined …. Attitudes toward others influence the desired extent of redistribution. There are multiple politico-economic equilibria. In one … majority vote for high redistribution. In the other equilibrium, highly skilled workers work above the mean and are admired by …

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Personal Redistribution and the Regional Allocation of Public Investment

Caminal, Ramon - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

. I show that the case for public investment as a significant instrument for interpersonal redistribution is rather weak …

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The Donor Problem

Abbink, Klaus; Ellman, Matthew - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

Donors often rely on local intermediaries to deliver benefits to target beneficiaries. Each selected recipient observes if the intermediary under-delivers to them, so they serve as natural monitors. However, they may withhold complaints when feeling unentitled or grateful to the intermediary for...

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Inequality, Ethnicity and Civil Conflict

Huber, John D.; Mayoral, Laura - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing on the mediating role of ethnic identity. Using...

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Median Stable Matching for College Admission

Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

We give a simple and concise proof that so-called generalized median stable matchings are well-defined for college admissions problems. Furthermore, we discuss the fairness properties of median stable matchings and conclude with two illustrative examples of college admissions markets, the...

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