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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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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day

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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The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Intertemporal Income Shifting

Gorry, Aspen - 2018

Knowing the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is crucial for understanding the effects of taxation on taxpayer … behavior and consequently on tax revenues. Previous research finds that high-income individuals are the most sensitive to tax … policy changes. However, these individuals have more opportunities to defer income to future tax bases by altering the …

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Firm Heterogeneity, Internal Finance, and `Credit Rationing'

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2008

Assessing the extent to which agents or firms face capital-market imperfections and quantity restrictions on credit is crucial for measuring intertemporal tradeoffs in consumption or the cost of capital for investment. In contrast to standard price-clearing, quot;full-informationquot; models of...

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Are Investment Incentives Blunted by Changes in Prices of Capital Goods?

Hassett, Kevin A.; Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2021

Recent research on business investment decisions suggests that real investment in plant and equipment is quite sensitive to changes in the user cost of capital, pointing to the possibility that long-run changes in tax policy may have a significant impact on an economy's capital stock. Indeed,...

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Internal Finance and Investment : Evidence from the Undistributed Profits Tax of 1936-1937

Calomiris, Charles W.; Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2021

Recent theoretical approaches have linked shifts in firms' internal funds and investment spending, holding constant underlying investment opportunities. An important impediment to convincing tests of these models is the lack of firm-level data on the relative costs of internal and external...

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