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作者：Guariso, Andrea; Rogall, Thorsten
作者单位：University of Milano-Bicocca; Uppsala University
摘要：How are ethnic inequality and ethnic violence related? We empirically investigate this question using an innovative measure of resource inequality between ethnic groups, based on rainfall in ethnic homelands during the plant-growing season. Our main dataset covers the period 1950-2020 and includes 250 ethnicities located across 43 African countries. Our results indicate that rainfall-based inequality is a strong predictor of ethnic violence and that the link heavily depends on the power relati...
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作者：Garcia, Jorge Luis
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：I investigate the intrahousehold labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, replacing women as added workers and shutting down a motive for saving. Despite sizable program-job take-up, the guarantee decreases participation in other working activities and, thus, labor force participation of married women and total time worked by their husbands. The guarantee accounts for up to 30 percent of...
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作者：Bohne, Albrecht; Nimczik, Jan sebastian
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); European School of Management & Technology
摘要：We evaluate a tax reform in Ecuador that introduced generous deductions from personal income taxes (PIT), encouraging consumers to request receipts. The reform addresses tax evasion by targeting small self-employed businesses that mainly sell goods or services not subject to value-added taxes (VAT) but that often evade income taxes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in receipt demand due to the distribution of taxpayers across regions and professions, we find significant increases in re...
