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Does a spoonful of sugar levy help the calories go down? : an analysis of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy
Dickson, Alex; Gehrsitz, Markus; Kemp, Jonathan - 2021
in response to the tax. In total, the levy is responsible for a reduction in intake of just under 6,500 calories from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588681
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Speed discounting and racial disparities : evidence from speeding tickets in Boston
Anbarcı, Nejat (contributor); Lee, Jungmin (contributor) - 2008
Law enforcement officers are allowed to exercise a significant amount of street-level discretion in a variety of ways. In this paper, we focus on a particular prominent kind of discretionary behavior by traffic officers when issuing speeding tickets, speed discounting. Officers partially forgive...
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Private school quality in Italy
Bertola, Giuseppe (contributor);  … - 2007
We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students differ not only in terms of their families' ability to pay...
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Informal fee elimination and student performance : evidence from the Gambia
Giordono, Leanne; Pugatch, Todd - 2015
Informal school fees - for uniforms, books, and other supplies - are substantial in developing countries, often several times formal tuition. We evaluate a scholarship program that alleviated informal fees for girls in a subset of Gambian secondary schools. The program is unique because it...
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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries
Bibi, Sami (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
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Relational contracts, taxation and the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009
This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a repeated non-cooperative game, Pareto efficient outcomes can be supported by self interest, given the specific pattern of specialisation and exchange which exists in the...
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Does formality improve micro-firm performance? : quasi-experimental evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES program
Fajnzylber, Pablo; Maloney, William F.; Montes-Rojas, … - 2009
This paper employs regression discontinuity methods to identify the effect of formality on Brazilian micro-firm performance. The SIMPLES program introduced in November 1996 consolidated multiple taxes and social security contributions into a single payment and reduced taxes for eligible small...
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Individual responsibility and the funding of collective goods
Lévy-Garboua, Louis (contributor);  … - 2007
When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561619
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Demographic divide and labor migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2011
found that such tax can raise substantial tax revenue for the SMCs which could be used to enhance human capital in the … ; overlapping generations ; endogenous tax policy ; Mediterranean region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523531
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Labour supply and taxes : new estimates of the responses of wives to husbands' wages
Dostie, Benoît; Kromann, Lene - 2012
women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator … (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of income at the household level to compute the marginal tax rates faced by … each individual. We then use these marginal tax rates to compute net own-wage, spouse-wage, and non-labour income. We show …
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