The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent … of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or …

Rising levels of income inequality and tight government budgets have spurred discussions in many developing nations … about how to appropriately tax high-income earners. In this paper, we study taxpayer responses to an increase in the top … identification design. We establish that treated taxpayers strongly reduce their reported taxable income in response to the tax …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive effects on provinces' average household income in Viet Nam. The effect sizes … are larger for lower-income quintiles and for rural areas, suggesting the more inclusive changing impact of the innovation … presented. The evidence from Viet Nam, a lowermiddle-income country, can bring further understanding in terms of the extent of …

We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use … new datasets—including income tax data—and new empirical methods to investigate the drivers of household income and … the earnings and income distributions have done well in both absolute and relative terms, thus increasing inequality …

In this paper we explore the income data in two surveys that underpin a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model … time point. We explore discrepancies between the simulated and administrative data on personal income tax, with reference … implausible cases for high income individuals. The paper concludes by highlighting the potential for administrative data to …

In this paper we explore options for augmenting South Africa's personal income tax revenue using two microsimulation … models: PITMOD simulates the personal income tax system and is underpinned by a dataset comprising a full extract of … anonymized individual-level administrative tax data; and SAMOD simulates personal income tax and social benefits using a …

Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income … mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 … and 2009 was much stronger than before. Regarding the structure of income mobility, the 'exchange mobility' is generally …

model for Myanmar to analyse the economic and household income distribution impacts of a combined child work elimination and … and appalling continuation of child labour practices while improving income distribution in favour of disadvantaged rural …