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Guillermo Alves

@guillealves.bsky.social

Urban and Development Economics. Research Economist at CAF Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. Personal opinions here. https://sites.google.com/site/guillealves

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Paul Bruno@paul-bruno.com · 2y ago

"Audits of high-income taxpayers are more costly, but the additional revenue raised more than offsets the costs...the returns to marginal audits...exceed the returns to average audits...Deterrence...results in the 12:1 return above the 90th percentile." academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution*

Abstract. We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distribution. We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90

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Ludger Woessmann@woessmann.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢Just released: Results of PIAAC round 2⃣, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies📝 11 years after round 1⃣, we learn how adults in 31 countries perform in literacy, numeracy + problem-solving How does your country do? 👉https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html

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Luis Monroy Gómez Franco@mgf91.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mexicans are able to correctly estimate the magnitude of income inequality in the country but they overestimate (by a lot) the degree of intergeneracional mobility in the country. From the presentation by Aurora Ramírez

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Arpit Gupta@arpitrage.bsky.social · 2y ago

The two most salient innovations to automobiles — EVs and autonomous vehicles — both make congestion pricing valuable: EVs will dry up gas revenues on which DOTs rely. While AVs will drastically increase vehicle miles traveled so everything will get congested absent pricing

Pseudoerasmus@pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 2y ago

There are several reasons to be sceptical about the misallocation literature (which does not show but generally assumes that policy-induced distortions generate the wedges) but an underrated one is simply historical. The USA in the 19th century also had lots of 'misallocation'....

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