their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

zero. Using the estimated optimal weights, we compute estimates of true income per capita and $1/day poverty rates for the … developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … of Chen and Ravallion (2010) or of the survey-based poverty literature more generally …

distribution has become particularly important in recent decades. We reconfirm the findings of the literature that global poverty …

In theory, the U.S. tax system aims to attribute and tax all business income to individuals. But the tax treatment of …