estimate the model with the use of data from Pakistan villages. Empirical results are consistent with the economic arguments …

Islamist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere have sought to remove females from public life. This paper uses … data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement and the Global Terrorism Database to examine the impact of the …

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when …

China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the …

This paper studies the effects of capital tax reforms on retained earnings, dividend tax revenues, and income … inequality in Israel between 2001 and 2020. We analyze two major dividend tax reforms: a permanent rate increase in 2012 and a … increase in the dividend tax rate resulted in an immediate increase of over 100% in the withdrawal of retained earnings and in …

stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments with past portfolio weights. Unrealized … a flat 5 percent for the rest of the distribution. Households' consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend …