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Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform
Although only a few OECD countries currently apply progressive wealth taxes (Colombia, Norway, Spain, Switzerland), the academic and political debate on the complementary role of
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A response to Auten and Splinter’s denial of US inequality
Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman respond to Auten and Splinter’s paper published in the Journal of Political Economy in November 2023, which denies
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Income inequality in Canada – historical trends and regional comparisons since 1982
How have inequalities evolved in Canada since the 1980s? How Quebec and other provinces compare to each other? What are the most effective fiscal and
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The carbon footprint of capital
What is the carbon footprint of capital and how are emissions associated with asset ownership distributed across the population? In this paper, Lucas Chancel and
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Education at the centre of global poverty reduction
Access to schooling has improved dramatically around the world in recent decades. How useful have these investments been in reducing poverty and gender inequality? Amory
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The overlooked role of public goods in global poverty reduction
Existing poverty statistics focus on household disposable income or consumption, ignoring the large share of national income accruing to individuals in the form of public
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Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics
What drives labor coercion? Do plagues increase labor coercion by creating labor scarcity? Labor scarcity is the main hypothesized determinant of labor coercion Domar (1970),
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Progressive taxation remains the global exception, new study shows
What is the level and incidence of taxes and transfers worldwide, since 1980? Which countries do the most to reduce income disparities through taxes and
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3 ways to look at global income inequality in 2023 – Insights from the World Inequality Database
The World Inequality Lab (WIL) released its annual update of global inequality data. Tell me in which country you live and I will tell
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