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Public Attitudes Toward Redistributive Policies for Poverty Reduction and Climate Change
Recent surveys in high and middle-income countries reveal substantial support for globally redistributive policies for poverty reduction and climate change mitigation, especially for a global
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Is Charitable Giving Political? Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Returns in France
There has been a rise in philanthropy in Western democracies in recent years. In France, charitable giving increased by 78.6% increase between 2006 and 2019.
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Trading Non-tradables: the Implications of Europe’s Job Posting Policy
This paper examines the impacts of the EU posting policy, a large trade and temporary migration programme facilitated by the free provision of services. The
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Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation
Using official information published by Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the CPC, we construct a database of officials who have been found
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The Impact of Communist Party Membership on Wealth Distribution and Accumulation in Urban China
This paper provides the first in-depth investigation into the evolution of the wealth gap between CCP and non-CCP households in urban China from 1995
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Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions
This technical note combines data from household surveys, government budgets, tax simulators, national accounts, and detailed fiscal incidence studies to construct a new database on
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Historical Inequality Series
The purpose of this technical note is to describe the construction of WID.world’s long-run per-adult income inequality series and adjustments made to ensure consistency with
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Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States
We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US
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Uncovering the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
This paper introduces a new way of decomposing the evolution of the wealth distribution using a simple continuous time stochastic model, which separates the
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