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We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest is rationally used by civilians to oppose (unfair) surplus sharing by the elite. We predict that the probability of observing social unrest in a village increases with the sum of...
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, the paper contributes an analytic derivation of the tax elasticity of taxable income, the welfare cost of the tax, and … government revenue as a percent of output. It shows how an increase in the tax rate causes the tax elasticity and welfare cost to … elasticity of reported income, the welfare cost of taxation and the tax revenue as a percent of output, with sensitivity analysis …
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-determined by their early numeracy development. …
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This paper suggests that inequality in landownership is a non-financial hurdle for human capital accumulation. It is the first to present evidence that inequality in landownership had an adverse effect on the level of public education in the Korean colonial period. Using a fixed effects model,...
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A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …
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agricultural development in Timor-Leste and how such development can be achieved. This is done in two steps. The first one takes …
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agricultural development in Timor-Leste and how such development can be achieved. This is done in two steps. The first one takes …
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economic development, applying synthetic control methods for estimation. For the average World Cup municipality, we find …
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