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This paper simulates the distributional impact of the Russian personal income tax (PIT) following the flat tax reform of 2001 using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. I decompose the change in the distribution of net income into a direct (tax) effect and an indirect effect....
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attempt to explain this evolution. The rise can be explained by variables associated with education, while the fall appears to …
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-terun relations among the elements of direct taxes on the income distribution within the years 1971-2004 and during the third Five … property has been able to lower the Gini coefficient, while income and corporate taxes have only served to worsen income …
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This paper examines the individual effects of primary, secondary and higher education on income distribution, using … different measures of investment rates in education: enrollment rates, public expenditures and public expenditures per student …, in each education stage. The panel data method is utilized in estimating the effects of different stages and measures of …
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A presentation of a model that incorporates many factors simultaneously -- including education, experience, and …
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We present a public higher education model in which there exist indivisibilities in educational investment … devoted to public higher education. Moderate degrees of admission bias lower the share of resources devoted to public … education whereas higher levels of bias may have positive effects on public education supply. Thus, while lower screening biases …
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-being" as part of session 3, "Education and crime in urban neighborhoods." The conference was held at the Federal Reserve Bank …
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent. [CDE WP 101].
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for children in poor families. Initiatives that focus on early childhood education seem to yield high returns on …
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Despite a large and growing earnings premium for college graduates, growth in college enrollment and especially college attainment in the United States has been quite slow. The labor market's apparent lack of responsiveness to the earnings premium may be driven in part by the risks that...
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