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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes

Tominey, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …

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Protection for Whom? Creditor Conflicts in Bankruptcy.

Longhofer, S.D.; Peters, S.R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

In this article we provide a rationale for bankruptcy law that is based on the conflicts among creditors that occur when a debtor's iabilities exceed its assets. In the absence of a bankruptcy law, the private debt-collection remedies that creditors pursue when a debtor is insolvent result in an...

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Rearranging the roles of the performer and the composer in the music industry – the potential significance of Fisher v Brooker

Mcdonagh, Luke T. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The composer has historically been at the top of the tree in the music industry; most royalties due to artists flow back to composers/songwriters rather than performers. Over the last few decades, the enactment of stronger performers’ rights has sought to redress this historical imbalance by...

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Anti-evasion auditing policy in the presence of common income shocks

Sanchez-Villalba, Miguel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

When fairly homogeneous taxpayers are affected by common income shocks, a tax agency’s optimal auditing strategy consists of auditing a low-income declarer with a probability that (weakly) increases with the other taxpayers’ declarations. Such policy generates a coordination game among...

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Inequality in Greece: an analysis by income source

Papatheodorou, Christos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there...

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Job creation and job destruction in the presence of informal labour markets

Bosch, Mariano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Recessions and policy interventions in labour markets in developing countries are characterized not only by changes in the unemployment rate, but also by changes in the proportion of formal or protected jobs. This reallocation between formal and informal jobs is large and occurs mainly because...

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Does envy destroy social fundamentals? The impact of relative income position on social capital

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Electoral Misgovernance Cycles: Evidence from wildfires and tax evasion in Greece and elsewhere

Skouras, Spyros; Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We present detailed empirical evidence that around Greek elections, misgovernance results in significant increases in wildfires and tax evasion and with important economic implications: the cumulative cost of these effects in recent years has been over 8% of GDP and has therefore been a...

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Eliciting taxpayer preferences increases tax compliance

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Lamberton, Cait; Norton, Michael I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Two experiments show that eliciting taxpayer preferences on government spending—providing taxpayer agency--increases tax compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a lab tax. Allowing a treatment group to express...

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The end of bank secrecy? An evaluation of the G20 tax haven crackdown

Johannesen, Niels; Zucman, Gabriel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

During the financial crisis, G20 countries compelled tax havens to sign bilateral treaties providing for exchange of bank information. Policymakers have celebrated this global initiative as the end of bank secrecy. Exploiting a unique panel dataset, our study is the first attempt to assess how...

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