perform poorly in terms of identifying poor households in Bolivian data when transfers are targeted narrowly to the poor but …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries …

transfers vis-à-vis universal transfers or from more narrow targeting. Theoretical work, on the other hand, has identified …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries …

In low-income communities in both rich and poor countries, redistributive transfers within kin and social networks are … that across countries, from Cote d'Ivoire to the United States, social groups that undertake more interpersonal transfers … transfers do not decline, indicating no loss in redistribution. Our estimates imply a 9-14% social tax rate. The welfare …

reciprocity game. Reciprocity is compared with other modes of transfers. Ways of explaining it are proposed. Its normative uses …