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Is poverty in the African DNA (gene)?
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
A 2015 World Bank report on attainment of Millennium Development Goals concludes that the number of extremely poor has dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408502
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Essays in empirical development and education economics
Lange, Simon - 2015
This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349599
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Livestock asset dynamics among pastoralists in Northern Kenya
Mburu, Samuel Kahumu; Kaiser, Micha; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2017
the livestock asset dynamics using both non-parametric and semi-parametric techniques to establish the shape of the asset … accumulation path and to determine whether multiple equilibria exist. More specifically, using tropical livestock units as a … measure of livestock accumulation over time, we show not only that these assets converge to a single equilibrium but that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729157
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The impact of losses on income tax revenue and implicit tax rates of different income sources : evidence from microsimulation using tax statistics for Germany
Bach, Stefan; Buslei, Hermann - 2009
In order to calculate the burden of a comprehensive and progressive income tax falling on a certain income source, an apportionment scheme for the entire tax burden has to be chosen. This raises the question of how to deal with losses, which is relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses...
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The welfare costs of tiebout sorting with true public goods
Hintermann, Beat; Kuhlmey, Florian - 2018
We develop a model of Tiebout sorting based on decentralized income taxation, which allows for spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of the publicly provided good. We identify three sources of welfare loss from decentralization: Imperfect redistribution, inter-jurisdictional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061833
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Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption : the equal-sacrifice approach applied fot the Czech Republic
Opatrny, Matej; Scasny, Milan - 2021
We provide the first estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption, η, for a post-transition economy in the Central & Eastern European region, the Czech Republic, based on individual-level data. The parameter η is a crucial component of the social discount rate (SDR), which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432235
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New estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption for Europe : implications for the social discount rate
Ščasnýa, Milan; Opatrný, Matěj - 2022
We provide the first estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption, μ, for Europe and for thirty individual European countries, using the income-tax individual-level data. Specifically, we rely on the absolute equal-sacrifice approach and CRRA utility function to elicit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461083
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962818
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Smoothed income poverty in European countries
Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438560
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Poverty in early modern Europe : new approaches to old problems
Alfani, Guido; Ammannati, Francesco; Ryckbosch, Wouter - 2022
Earlier research on poverty failed to provide us with consistent measures of its prevalence across space and time. This is due to the limitations of the available sources and to the difficulty of applying to them the poverty definitions of modern social science. This article discusses different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821150