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Do Value-Added Taxes Affect International Trade Flows? Evidence from 30 Years of Tax Reforms

Benzarti, Youssef - 2019

This paper uses all Value Added Tax (VAT) changes across all EU Member States from 1988 to 2016 to estimate the effect of VATs on trade flows. We find small elasticities of trade flows with respect to VATs, in spite of some of the VAT changes being substantial. We estimate substantially smaller...

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What Goes Up May Not Come Down : Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes

Benzarti, Youssef - 2017

This paper shows that prices respond more to increases than to decreases in Value-Added Taxes (VATs). First, using all VAT reforms from 1996 to 2015 across all European countries we show that prices respond 3 to 4 times more to VAT increases than decreases. Second, using a plausibly exogenous...

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Who Really Benefits from Consumption Tax Cuts? Evidence from a Large VAT Reform in France

Benzarti, Youssef - 2017

In this paper we evaluate the incidence of a large cut in value-added taxes (VAT) for French sit-down restaurants. In contrast to previous studies that focus on prices only, we estimate its effect on four groups: workers, firm owners, consumers and suppliers of material goods. Using a...

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Can VAT Cuts and Anti-Profiteering Measures Dampen the Effects of Food Price Inflation?

Benzarti, Youssef; Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Darío - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper estimates the effect of a temporary and large (21 p.p.) value-added tax (VAT) cut along with anti-profiteering measures on food necessities during a period of high inflation in Argentina. Using barcode-level data across more than 3,000 supermarkets, we find that (1) absent the...

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Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment

Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …

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Effect of Health Insurance in India : A Randomized Controlled Trial

Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...

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Testing Limits to Policy Reversal : Evidence from Indian Privatizations

Dastidar, Siddhartha G. - 2007

We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP …

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Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments

Corno, Lucia - 2017

particularly child marriage, in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, where substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with … marriage: bride price across Sub-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in … two regions: in Sub-Saharan Africa, they increase the annual hazard into child marriage by 3%, while in India droughts …

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Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-income Countries : A Field Experiment in India

Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …

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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes

Fisman, Raymond - 2012

religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …

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