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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning

Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...

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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

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Globalization and Factor Income Taxation

Bachas, Pierre; Fisher-Post, Matthew H.; Jensen, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why? To address this question we build and analyze a new database of effective macroeconomic tax rates covering 150 countries since 1965, constructed by combining national accounts data with government revenue...

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Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces : Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo

Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Blumenstock, Joshua; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

wellbeing within a rural population with fairly homogeneous baseline levels of poverty. We discuss the implications of these …

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Evaluating Tax Harmonization

Hines, James R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Tax harmonization entails a uniform rate that may not suit all governments. Harmonization can advance collective governmental objectives only if the standard deviation of tax rates is less than the average downward effect of tax competition on rates. Since an efficient harmonized tax rate undoes...

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Inflation's Impact on American Households

Altig, David; Auerbach, Alan J.; Eidschun, Erin F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The post-COVID price surge has reignited interest in inflation's impact on American households. Even if anticipated and with full market adjustments, inflation affects households through its interaction with the fiscal system, which is the focus of this paper. Inflation affects households...

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The Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Expanded Child Tax Credit

Enriquez, Brandon; Jones, Damon; Tedeschi, Ernest V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the extensive and intensive margin labor supply response to the monthly Child Tax Credit disbursed in 2021 as a part of the American Rescue Plan Act. Using Current Population Survey microdata, we compare labor supply outcomes among households who qualify for varying relative...

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

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Early Childhood Development, Human Capital and Poverty

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Meghir, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

of poverty. In this paper, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood …

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Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital : Evidence from Ghana

Barker, Nathan; Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals selected from the general population of poor households in rural Ghana. Results from 2-3 months after a randomized intervention show strong impacts on mental and physical health, cognitive and socioemotional skills, and...

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