delay early marriage in shock-hit households as they are more creditconstrained. Lastly, higher educated women receive more …

differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income … credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more …

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 …

Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … labour market. While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during … this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and …

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 …

insurance. A discretionary action approach is adopted for Ghana as it fails shock resistance tests by introducing additional …This paper calculates automatic stabilization in Ghana, South Africa, and Ecuador to explain income cushioning amid … income and demand shocks. Fiscal policies within these countries are also stress tested to gauge welfare contingencies and …

Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …

Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However … the percentiles of the income distribution in different ways. Therefore, standard growth incidence curves may misrepresent …

wealth and capital income tax bases more than doubled, and the amnesty's earmarked revenue boosted pension benefits by 15 per …