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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning

Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...

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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

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Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System : Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data

Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this population for the United States has historically been...

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Globalization and Factor Income Taxation

Bachas, Pierre; Fisher-Post, Matthew H.; Jensen, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why? To address this question we build and analyze a new database of effective macroeconomic tax rates covering 150 countries since 1965, constructed by combining national accounts data with government revenue...

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Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and Measured Wage Inequality : Evidence from India

Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2006

We use a large dataset covering all registered plants in the manufacturing sector in India over the period 1986 to 1995 to examine the effects of a 1992 income tax law change that eliminated the double taxation of wages paid to partners in partnership firms. This tax law change provides a unique...

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Evaluating Tax Harmonization

Hines, James R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Tax harmonization entails a uniform rate that may not suit all governments. Harmonization can advance collective governmental objectives only if the standard deviation of tax rates is less than the average downward effect of tax competition on rates. Since an efficient harmonized tax rate undoes...

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Automating Automaticity : How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias

Agan, Amanda Y.; Davenport, Diag; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Consumer choices are increasingly mediated by algorithms, which use data on those past choices to infer consumer preferences and then curate future choice sets. Behavioral economics suggests one reason these algorithms so often fail: choices can systematically deviate from preferences. For...

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The Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Expanded Child Tax Credit

Enriquez, Brandon; Jones, Damon; Tedeschi, Ernest V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the extensive and intensive margin labor supply response to the monthly Child Tax Credit disbursed in 2021 as a part of the American Rescue Plan Act. Using Current Population Survey microdata, we compare labor supply outcomes among households who qualify for varying relative...

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

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Early Childhood Development, Human Capital and Poverty

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Meghir, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

of poverty. In this paper, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood …

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