attrition of communicating with participants. Specifically, we study the impact of sending topically relevant information on job … market conditions via SMS at the start of each survey round. Testing various information treatments, which differ in their …

differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income … credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more …

paper seeks to address this gap by examining the impact of income inequality on democracy, focusing particularly on the … democracy. Combining democracy indicators from the V-Dem Project with inequality data from the World Income Inequality Dataset …

function, and are allowed to vary in terms of substitutability and relative productivity. Households receive income from labor … and face both labor and consumption taxes. The government receives consumption tax revenues and a proportion of income tax … effects on growth and on the evolution of income inequality; (ii) raising the consumption tax generates about as much economic …

political economy of taxing upper-income groups in Chile and Uruguay reveals the importance of continuous political agency on …

Over the past two decades, research on the impacts of a diverse range of public policies and income inequality has seen … policy interventions might help to reduce income inequality. This paper aims to fill this void by providing a systematic …

Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We … was found for deprived communities. The findings lay a platform for an innovative information campaign that can be used by …

High youth unemployment rates and long school-to-work transition times pose a threat to low-income countries … providing information on wages and unemployment reduces the time that university graduate job-seekers take to become employed …, with different levels of efficacy depending on the type of information provided. This relatively low-cost mechanism can …