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Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence

Bayer, R; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We focus on a relatively neglected area of the tax-compliance literature in economics, the behaviour of firms. We examine the impact of alternative audit rules on receipts from a tax on profits in the context of strategic inter- dependence of firms. In the market firms may compete in terms of...

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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 …-up rate of a questionable tax loophole. Providing taxpayer agency recouples tax payments with the public services obtained in … tax dues. With tax noncompliance costing the US government $385billion annually, providing taxpayer agency could have …

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More than just talk: the framing of transactional sex and its implications for vulnerability to HIV in Lesotho, Madagascar and South Africa

Stoebenau, Kirsten; Nixon, Stephanie A.; Rubincam, Clara; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Background 'Transactional sex' was regarded by the mid-1990s as an important determinant of HIV transmission, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Little attention has been paid to what the terms used to denote transactional sex suggest about how it is understood. This study provides a nuanced...

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Tenure reformed: planning for redress or progress in South Africa

James, Deborah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article explores the contradictory and contested but closely interlocking efforts of NGOs and the state in planning for land reform in South Africa. As government policy has come increasingly to favor the better-off who are potential commercial farmers, so NGO efforts have been directed,...

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Pay for performance where output is hard to measure: the case of performance pay for school teachers

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...

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Wage differentials in Japan: 1958-85

Morishima, Michio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

The market is a place where people behave quite relentlessly. If one person is selling a particular commodity at a higher price than others, no one will buy that commodity from him, however virtuous or merciful he is known to be. Of course, the actual world does not always work exactly in this...

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Decentralization’s effects on educational outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul; Sanchez, Fabio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

education outcomes. In Colombia, decentralization of education finance improved enrollment rates in public schools. In Bolivia …

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Ethnic diversity, mobility and school funding: theory and evidence from Kenya

Miguel, Ted - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local school funding in Kenyan primary schools. The empirical results paint a picture of pervasive local collective action problems in ethnically diverse Kenyan primary schools. Local ethnic diversity is robustly associated with...

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Anatomy of a health scare: education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … a positive education gradient into a negative one. We also consider the response in terms of uptake of other childhood …

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The shifting balance of private and public welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 2007

Edmiston, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …

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