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Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Peter, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia's 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and tax evasion. We use the gap between household expenditures and reported earnings as a proxy for tax evasion with data from a household panel for 1998-2004. Utilizing...

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Provincial and Local Governments in China: Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior

Gordon, Roger H.; Li, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for local residents to exercise "voice". Given the hukou registration system, local residents have little opportunity to threaten "exit" if they are unhappy with local taxes and...

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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie; Foucault, Martial; Rota-Graziosi, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel data from local governments' accounts and from surveys on 18,000 Beninese households performed in 2006 and 2007, our study suggests that decentralization has a positive overall...

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Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets

Miguel, Edward Andrew; Fisman, Raymond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement … versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood. To disentangle these two factors, we exploit a natural … generates a revealed preference measure of government officials' corruption based on real-world behavior taking place in the …

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Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones

Berman, Eli; Felter, Joseph; Shapiro, Jacob N.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Most interpretations of prevalent counterinsurgency theory imply that increasing government services will reduce rebel violence. Empirically, however, development programs and economic activity sometimes yield increased violence. Using new panel data on development spending in Iraq, we show that...

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Commercial Policy in a Predatory World

Anderson, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Mutual causation of predation and trade induces novel effects of commercial policy in this paper. The model can explain trade volume responses to market widening initiatives that are otherwise puzzlingly 'too big' or 'too small'. Efficient commercial policy (broadly defined) depends crucially on...

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Costly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations

Cooper, Russell; Gong, Guan; Yan, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing compensation. We estimate a model of costly labor...

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China: An Institutional View of an Unusual Macroeconomy

Dollar, David; Jones, Benjamin F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

China presents several macroeconomic patterns that appear inconsistent with standard stylized facts about economic development and hence inconsistent with the standard neoclassical growth model. We show that Chinese macroeconomic patterns instead appear consistent with an environment where state...

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Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

Iyer, Lakshmi; Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy; Zhao, Xiaoxue - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts for more than a quarter of the overall...

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Incentives and Outcomes: China's Environmental Policy

Deng, Yongheng; Morck, Randall; Wu, Jing; Huang, Jun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000-2009 data, we find that, while spending on environmental infrastructure has visible positive environmental impact, city spending is strongly tilted towards transportation...

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