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Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform : Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia's 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and tax evasion. We use the gap between household expenditures and reported earnings as a proxy for tax evasion with data from a household panel for 1998-2004. Utilizing...

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International Capital Mobility and Tax Evasion

Giovannini, Alberto - 2010

This paper studies the welfare effects of international investment to evade domestic taxes on domestic investment income. Capital mobility for tax evasion eliminates distortions in the intertemporal allocation of consumption, but introduces distortions in domestic production. Conversely, a...

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Why is There Corporate Taxation in a Small Open Economy? The Role of Transfer Pricing and Income Shifting

Gordon, Roger H. - 2009

Several recent papers argue that corporate income taxes should not be used by small, open economies. With capital mobility, the burden of the tax falls on fixed factors (e.g., labor), and the tax system is more efficient if labor is taxed directly. However, corporate taxes not only exist but...

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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa

Rainer, Ilia - 2012

The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...

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Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments

Cadena, Ximena - 2014

We report the results from a field experiment with a micro lender in Uganda to test the effectiveness of privately …

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Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda

Gollin, Douglas - 2014

A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …

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The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty : 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program

Blattman, Christopher - 2018

In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four …

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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture

Gollin, Douglas - 2019

rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …

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Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

Balat, Jorge F. - 2010

into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care … rate of 0.8%; doubling household expenditure in Uganda increases the bribery probability by 1.2 percentage points compared ….37 in Uganda. Bribes in the Ugandan public sector appear to be fees-for-service extorted from the richer patients amongst …

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