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Title: Law enforcement and the size of the informal sector (paper: Law_enforcement_and_the_size_of_the_informal_section_V2_Aug2019 (4)) Abstract: I assemble new cross-country evidence showing that contrary to the standard view, the relationship between the size of the informal sector and tax rates is, at best, ambiguous. Law enforcement and informality also show no clear Read more…

Title: A New Method of Estimating Teacher Value-Added Paper link: GGM_TVA Abstract: This paper proposes a new methodology for estimating teacher value-added. Rather than imposing a normality assumption on unobserved teacher quality (as in the standard empirical Bayes approach), our nonparametric estimator permits the underlying distribution to be estimated directly Read more…