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Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take it Up : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco

Crepon, Bruno - 2014

and agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual … labor, so overall there was no gain in measured income or consumption. We find suggestive evidence that these results are …

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Happiness on Tap : Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Devoto, Florencia - 2014

result in income or health gains …

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Estimating Adjustment Costs with Data on Heterogeneous Capital Goods

Goolsbee, Austan - 2008

This paper estimates the micro-level costs of adjusting capital using detailed data onquot; investment decisions in the US airline industry. The data include the capital stock retirement, market values, operating costs, and utilization rates of 16 different types of capitalquot; goods for each...

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Investment Tax Incentives, Prices, and the Supply of Capital Goods

Goolsbee, Austan - 2008

Using data on the prices of capital goods, this paper shows that much of the benefit ofquot; investment tax incentives does not go to investing firms but rather to capital suppliers throughquot; higher prices. The reduction in the cost of capital from a 10 percent investment tax creditquot;...

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The Importance of Measurement Error in the Cost of Capital

Goolsbee, Austan - 2021

Conventional estimates of the impact of taxes on investment may be seriously biased by measurement error in the cost of capital. The existence and size of such error, however, has not been documented. Using panel data on different types of capital equipment, this paper provides direct evidence...

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Taxes, Organizational Form, and the Deadweight Loss of the Corporate Income Tax

Goolsbee, Austan - 2008

the non-corporate share of capital .002-.03. The implied deadweight loss of the corporate income tax is around 5-10% of …

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The Impact and Inefficiency of the Corporate Income Tax : Evidence from State Organizational Form Data

Goolsbee, Austan - 2021

By double taxing the income of corporate firms but not unincorporated firms, taxes can play an important role in a firm … approximate the efficiency cost of the corporate income tax. This paper uses new cross-sectional data on organizational form … of the relative taxation of corporate to personal income on the share of economic activity that is done by corporations …

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