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Episode 11: Can We Do Something about Tax Evasion? -- with Juliana Londoño-Vélez
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English - January 20, 2021 16:00 - 24 minutes - 28.6 MBSocial Sciences Science Education Courses economics inequality research Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Progressive wealth taxes may be difficult to enforce if wealthy individuals underreport their wealth, but disclosure incentives and greater enforcement can improve tax collection.
Juliana Londoño-Vélez presents her work with Javier Avila-Mahecha which uses rich administrative data from Colombia and leverages a government-designed program for voluntary disclosures of hidden wealth, as well as the threat of detection triggered by the Panama Papers leak.
Paper:
"Enforcing Wealth Taxes in the Developing World: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia" by Juliana Londoño-Vélez & Javier Ávila-Mahecha
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20200319&from=f
Recommendation
- "Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems" (2019) by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51014619-good-economics-for-hard-times
- "Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research" (2020) by Miguel Urquiola
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244238
Progressive wealth taxes may be difficult to enforce if wealthy individuals underreport their wealth, but disclosure incentives and greater enforcement can improve tax collection.
Juliana Londoño-Vélez presents her work with Javier Avila-Mahecha which uses rich administrative data from Colombia and leverages a government-designed program for voluntary disclosures of hidden wealth, as well as the threat of detection triggered by the Panama Papers leak.
Paper:
"Enforcing Wealth Taxes in the Developing World: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia" by Juliana Londoño-Vélez & Javier Ávila-Mahecha
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20200319&from=f
Recommendation
"Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems" (2019) by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51014619-good-economics-for-hard-times
"Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research" (2020) by Miguel Urquiola
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244238