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Keynote 1

Michael Keen

Thinking about tax administration

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1.1 SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation special session

Jukka Pirttilä / Pia Rattenhuber	Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity: evidence from a behavioral microsimulation model for Ghana	Presentation
Gemma Wright / Vincent Leyaro	Policy transparency in the public sector: the case of social benefits in Tanzania mainland	Presentation
Mauricio Cuesta	Poverty and vulnerability to poverty in Ecuador: a microsimulation estimation	Presentation	Paper
Gemma Wright	Exploring options for delivering and financing a universal child benefit in South Africa	Presentation

1.2 State capacity

Roel Dom	Semi-autonomous revenue authorities in sub-Saharan Africa: silver bullet or white elephant	Presentation	Paper
Sanjay Jain	Reforming the public sector: state capacity and special interests	Presentation	Paper
Anna Kochanova	Does e-government improve government capacity? Evidence from tax compliance costs and public procurement competitiveness	Presentation	Paper

1.3 Social Protection I

Damian Clarke	Growing together: the importance of a large early-life social inclusion program on neonatal health outcomes in Latin America	Presentation	Paper
Kelly Kilburn	Short-term Impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program on child schooling: experimental evidence from Malawi	Presentation	Paper
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa	Natural resources, electoral behaviour and social assistance in Latin America	Presentation	Paper

1.4 Local public sector and effectiveness

Min Hein	Myanmar real estate holding tax: a modest proposal for municipal finance in Myanmar	Presentation	Paper
Maty Konte	How do education resources respond to the quality of local governance? evidence from Africa	Presentation	Paper
Sam Jones	Efficiency and equity in public service delivery in Mozambique: 1997-2014	Presentation

2.1 Employment and labour income

Albrecht Bohne	Learning dynamics in tax bunching at the kink: evidence from Ecuador	Presentation	Paper
Clemente Pignatti	Do public employment services improve employment outcomes? Evidence from Colombia	Presentation	Paper
Dario Tortarolo	The response of salaried workers to the personal income tax: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina	Presentation	Paper

2.2 Political economy

Biniam Bedasso	Remittances and taxation in developing countries	Presentation	Paper
Roberto Ricciuti	How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies	Presentation	Paper

2.3 Social protection II

Noemi Pace	Making the right livelihood choice: how do cash transfers help?	Presentation	Paper
Ervin Prifti	Risk-related effects of cash transfers on modern inputs demand	Presentation	Paper
Alma Santillan	The electoral impact of a conditional cash transfer: the case of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades programme	Presentation

2.4 Local government and decentralization

Pablo Evia	Increased decentralization, basic services, and nutrition: evidence from Bolivia	Presentation	Paper
Tewodaj Mogues	Decentralization without representation (or mobility): implications for rural public service delivery

3.1 Using revenue authorities’ administrative data for research purposes – In collaboration with ICTD

Giulia Mascagni	African revenue administrations and tax researchers
Elizabeth Gavin / Jukka Pirttilä	UNU-WIDER research programme on using administrative data: lessons learnt and the way forward	Presentation / Presentation
Ronald Waiswa	Using revenue administrative data for research: practical experiences and research in the Ugandan context	Presentation

3.2 Labour market and household welfare impacts of cash transfer programmes

Silvio Daidone	A dose-response function approach for labour supply and cash transfers: the case of Zambia	Presentation	Paper
María Gabriela Palacio	Institutionalising segregation: conditional cash transfers and employment choices	Presentation	Paper
Guido Neidhöfer	The long-lasting effects of a conditional cash transfer on children’s human capital	Presentation	Paper
Carla Canelas	Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia’s Bono Juancito Pinto	Presentation	Paper

3.3 Nutritional and health outcomes

Temidayo Apata	Can social assistance programmes stimulate fairness of access to Agricultural Inputs Acquisition and reduce poverty among small-scale farmers in Southwestern, Nigeria?	Presentation	Paper
Andrea Guariso	Reducing child mortality in the last mile: a randomized social entrepreneurship intervention in Uganda	Presentation	Paper
Tara Kaul	Household responses to food subsidies: evidence from India	Presentation

3.4 Inequality and wellbeing

Ira Neal Gang	Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption	Presentation
Armand Mboutchouang Kountchou	The impact of oil exploitation on wellbeing in Chad	Presentation	Paper
Carlos Gradín	Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa	Presentation	Paper

4.1 Taxation: The data and research agenda

Kyle McNabb	Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics: the ICTD-UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset 2017	Presentation
Tony Addison / Jörgen Levin	Taxation and development	Presentation

4.2 Commitment to equity (Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policies in Africa) – In collaboration with the World Bank

Alejandro De La Fuente	Impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Zambia	Presentation	Paper
Tomomi Tanaka	Income tax policy, non-compliance, and its redistributive effects in Ghana	Presentation	Paper
Ryoko Sato	The impacts of external funding for district governments on tax collection and public goods provision in Ghana	Presentation	Paper
Sandra Martinez	The distributional impact of taxes and social spending in Senegal	Presentation	Paper

4.3 Taxation of firms

Xiaoguan Chen	Taxation like predation: the case in China	Presentaion	Paper
Giulia Mascagni	One size does not fit all: a field experiment on the drivers of tax compliance and delivery methods in Rwanda	Presentation

4.4 Experimental approaches

Karine Marazyan	Income hiding and informal redistribution: a lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal	Presentation	Paper
Karim Khan	Moral hazard, monitoring and punishment: evidence from a field experiment	Presentation	Paper
Arne Wiig	How do voters respond to information on self‐serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania	Presentation	Paper

5.1 Multinationals

Pamina Koenig	The geography of NGO activism against multinational corporations	Presentation	Paper
Miroslav Palanský	Estimating the scale of corporate profit shifting: tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investment	Presentation	Paper
Ludvig Wier	Tax motivated transfer price manipulation in South Africa	Presentation	Paper

5.2 Informality and taxation

Pierre Nguimkeu	An estimated model of informality and entrepreneurship	Presentation	Paper
Rudi Rocha de Castro	Do lower taxes reduce informality? Evidence from Brazil	Presentation	Paper
Bassirou Sarr	Value-added tax remittance responsibility, firm compliance, and production decisions	Presentation	Paper

5.3 Social protection III

Silvio Daidone	Does ‘soft conditionality’ increase the impact of cash transfers on desired outcomes? Evidence from a randomized control trial in Lesotho	Presentation	Paper
Richard De Groot	Overview of transfer project research in sub-Saharan Africa and highlights from ‘From Evidence to Action’	Presentation	Paper
Caroline Tassot	Can investments in social protection contribute to subjective wellbeing? A cross-country analysis	Presentation	Paper

5.4 Transfers

Marina Dodlova	The politics of social fund allocation: evidence from Kenya	Presentation
Abel Fumey	Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tactical political maneuverings: evidence from Ghana’s district assemblies common fund	Presentation	Paper
Anubhab Gupta	Heterogeneous spillovers from SCTs: evidence from Lesotho	Presentation	Paper

Keynote 2

John Page

'How to spend it': Financing Africa’s infrastructure gap

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