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Does hotter temperature increase poverty? : global evidence from subnational data analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2022

, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …

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Does global warming worsen poverty and inequality? : an updated review

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hallegatte, Stéphane; Trong Anh Trinh - 2023

warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …

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Effective Labor Taxation and the International Location of Headquarters

Egger, Peter H. - 2012

Profit taxes are widely acknowledged to influence the location of firms' headquarters. This paper sheds light on the role of aspects of labor taxation for the international location of headquarters. While profit taxes can be avoided in various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the...

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Is human development multidimensional?

French, Declan; Moore, Michael J.; Canning, David - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 25 (2013) 4, pp. 445-455

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Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? : age and subjective well-being in 145 countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

A large empirical literature has debated the U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in one hundred and forty-five countries, including one hundred and nine developing countries, controlling for education, marital and...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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The Globalization Paradox Revisited

Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2014

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital mobility in particular induces tax competition, thus putting downward pressure on capital taxes. However, while capital mobility introduces the inefficiency of tax competition, it...

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Robustness of a Simple Rule for the Social Cost of Carbon

Rezai, Armon - 2015

The optimal social cost of carbon is in general equilibrium proportional to GDP if utility is logarithmic, production is Cobb-Douglas, depreciation in 100% every period, climate damages as fraction of production decline exponentially with the stock of atmospheric carbon, and fossil fuel...

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Stranded Assets, the Social Cost of Carbon, and Directed Technical Change : Macroeconomic Dynamics of Optimal Climate Policy

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2016

The tractable general equilibrium model developed by Golosov et al. (2014), GHKT for short, is modified to allow for stock-dependent fossil fuel extraction costs and partial exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves, a negative impact of global warming on growth, mean reversion in climate damages,...

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Corporate Income Taxes Around the World - A Survey on Forward-Looking Tax Measures and Two Applications

Steinmüller, Elias - 2018

This study provides a survey on corporate taxes around the world. Our analysis has three main objectives. First, we collect tax data and calculate (forward-looking) effective tax measures for a large sample of countries and recent years. We particularly describe how these measures vary over time...

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