This paper aims to understand whether and how poverty aversion and inequality aversion affect the criminal behaviors. We analyze the relationship between the three variables through a theoretical model and an empirical model. The panel data of 27 provincial-level regions in China were collected...

The Environmental Protection Tax Law of the People’s Republic of China, passed in 2016, replaced the pollution discharge fee. The switch from pollution discharge fee to environmental protection tax (SFTT) has not changed the tax burden but has turned a management regulation into law, which...

This paper aims to understand whether and how poverty aversion and inequality aversion affect the criminal behaviors. We analyze the relationship between the three variables through a theoretical model and an empirical model. The panel data of 27 provincial-level regions in China were collected...