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1510: Re-designing Equalization Transfers: An Application to South Africa's Provincial Equitable Share

James Alm and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

1509: Understanding and Combatting Tax Evasion

James Alm

1508: Detroit Property Tax Delinquency---Social Contract in Crisis

James Alm, Timothy Hodge, Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

1505: Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa

Nora Lustig

1504: A Peculiar Sample: a reply to Steckel and Ziebarth

Jonathan Pritchett and Herman Freudenberger

1503: Smoking and Mortality: New Evidence from a Long Panel

Michael Darden, Donna Gilleskie and Koleman Strumpf

1502: Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala

Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig and Hilcías Morán

1501: Success is Something to Sneeze at: Influenza Mortality in Regions that Send Teams to the Super Bowl

Charles Stoecker, Nicholas Sanders and Alan Barreca

1409: Environmental Enforcement and Compliance: Lessons from Pollution, Safety, and Tax Settings

James Alm and Jay Shimshack

1408: State Government Revenue Recovery from the Great Recession

James Alm and David Sjoquist

1407: Tax Basis Determinations, Pass-Through Entities, and Taxpayer Noncompliance

James Alm and Jay Soled

1406: Estimating the "Tax Gap" at the State Level: The Case of Georgia's Personal Income Tax

James Alm and Kyle Borders

1405: Applying Behavioral Economics to the Public Sector

James Alm and Carolyn Bourdeaux

1404: Estimating Tax Agency Efficiency

James Alm and Denvil Duncan

1403: Does an Uncertain Tax System Encourage "Aggressive Tax Planning"?

James Alm

1402: Revisiting the Income Tax Effects of Legalizing Same-sex Marriages

James Alm, J. Sebastian Leguizamon and Susane Leguizamon

1401: Foreclosures and local government revenues from the property tax: The case of Georgia school districts

James Alm, Robert Buschman and David Sjoquist

1317: Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States

Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig, Whitney Ruble and Timothy Smeeding

1316: The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview

Nora Lustig, Florencia Amábile, Marisa Bucheli, George Gray Molina, Sean Higgins, Miguel Jaramillo, Wilson Jimenez Pozo, Veroniza Paz Arauco, Claudiney Pereira, Carola Pessino, Maximo Rossi, John Scott and Ernesto Yanez Aguilar

1315: Measuring Impoverishment: An Overlooked Dimension of Fiscal Incidence

Sean Higgins and Nora Lustig

1314: Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

1313: The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview

Nora Lustig, Carola Pessino and John Scott

1312: Identifying Demand Responses to Illegal Drug Supply Interdictions

Scott Cunningham and Keith Finlay

1311: Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Paraguay

Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig, Julio Ramirez and Billy Swanson

1310: Empathy, Sympathy, and Tax Compliance

Roberta Calvet and James Alm

1309: Expanding the Theory of Tax Compliance from Individual to Group Motivations

James Alm

1308: How did foreclosures affect property values in Georgia School Districts?

James Alm, Robert Buschman and David Sjoquist

1307: A Convenient Truth: Property Taxes and Revenue Stability

James Alm

1306: Automobiles, Tax Mischaracterizations, and the Multibillion Dollar Price Tag

James Alm and Jay Soled

1305: Did China's Tax-for-Fee Reform Improve Farmers' Welfare in Rural Areas?

James Alm and Yongzheng Liu

1304: China's Tax-for-Fee Reform and Village Inequality

James Alm and Yongzheng Liu

1303: Using Dynamic Panel Methods to Estimate Shadow Economies Around the World, 1984-2006

James Alm and Abel Embaye

1302: Theory and Practice of Inference in Regression Discontinuity: A Fixed-Bandwidth Asymptotics Approach

Otavio Bartalotti

1301: GMM Efficiency and IPW Estimation for Nonsmooth Functions

Otavio Bartalotti

1221: Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina During the 2000s: the Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions

Nora Lustig and Carola Pessino

1220: A Pint for a Pound? Reevaluating the Relationship Between Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Birth Outcomes

Alan Barreca and Marianne Page

1219: Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): Estimating the Incidence of Social Spending, Subsidies and Taxes Handbook

Nora Lustig and Sean Higgins

1218: Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

1217: Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay

Marisa Bucheli, Nora Lustig, Maximo Rossi and Florencia Amábile

1216: The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results

Nora Lustig, George Gray Molina, Sean Higgins, Miguel Jaramillo, Wilson Jimenez, Veroniza Paz, Claudiney Pereira, Carola Pessino, John Scott and Ernesto Yanez

1215: Rethinking Local Government Reliance on the Property Tax

James Alm, Robert Buschman and David Sjoquist

1214: Who Benefits from Tax Evasion?

James Alm and Keith Finlay

1213: Measuring, Explaining, and Controlling Tax Evasion: Lessons from Theory, Experiments, and Field Studies

James Alm

1212: Combining Psychology and Economics in the Analysis of Compliance: From Enforcement to Cooperation

Erich Kirchler, Stephan Muelbacher, Katharina Gangl, Eva Hofmann, Christoph Kogler, Maria Pollai and James Alm

1211: Tax Morale and Tax Compliance from the Firm's Perspective

James Alm and Chandler McClellan

1210: Rethinking the Research Paradigms for Analyzing Tax Compliance Behavior

James Alm, Erich Kirchler, Stephan Muelbacher, Katharina Gangl, Eva Hofmann, Christoph Kogler and Maria Pollai

1209: Baseball Salaries and Income Taxes: The "Home Field Advantage" of Income Taxes on Free Agent Salaries

James Alm, William Kaempfer and Edward Sennoga

1208: Citizen "Trust" as an Explanation of State Education Funding to Local School Districts

James Alm, Robert Buschman and David Sjoquist

1207: Do Ethics Matter? Tax Compliance and Morality

James Alm and Benno Torgler

1206: Does Online Cross-border Shopping Affect State Use Tax Liabilities?

James Alm and Mikhail Melnik