Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...

Los programas de transferencias monetarias han cobrado gran importancia en América Latina. La preocupación por su adecuada focalización se ha centrado en excluir a las personas que no cumplen los requisitos de elegibilidad. En cambio, se ha prestado menos atención al hecho de que ellos no...

By using a bunching design on rich administrative tax records from Uruguay's tax agency we explore how individual taxpayers respond to personal income taxation in a context with high sheltering opportunities. We estimate a moderated elasticity of taxable income in the first kink point (0.16)...

Based on detailed administrative tax records, we implement a bunching design to explorehow individual taxpayers respond to personal income taxation in Uruguay. We estimatea very modest elasticity of taxable income at the first kink point (0.06) driven bya combination of gross labour income and...