Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … methods, using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 5, the Living Conditions Survey 2014/15, and the Quarterly …

A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly … population size and per capita income on civil war risk that is robust to the use of country- and year-fixed effects and … instrumental variable techniques. -- Population Size ; Per Capita Income ; and the Risk of Civil War …

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 …

and equity. -- carbon tax ; growth ; employment ; income distribution ; South Africa …