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The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply

Econometrica, Volume 93, Issue 6, Page 2273-2308, November 2025.
In low‐income communities in both rich and poor countries, redistributive transfers within kin and social networks are frequent. Such arrangements may distort labor supply—acting as a “social tax” that dampens the incentive to work. We document that across countries, from the United States to Côte d'Ivoire, low‐income groups report strong pressure to ...
Eliana Carranza, Aletheia Donald, Florian Grosset‐Touba, Supreet Kaur   +3 more
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Les Organisations de la Société Civile et la Lutte Contre la Pauvreté en Afrique Subsaharienne [PDF]

, 2004
The paper presents the role played by civil society organisations to bring down the ...
Aurélien C. Atidegla, Celestin Hounkpe, Elisabeth Paul, Gregor Stangherlin, Latifou Yessoufou, Magloire Cossou, Marc Labie, Marc Poncelet, Marthe Nyssen, Mathieu Soglonou, Pascal Wele, Simon-Narcisse Tomety   +11 more
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The Devil's Colors: A Comparative Study of French and Nigerian Folktales [PDF]

, 2006
This study, largely based on five separate published collections, compares French and Nigerian folktales - focusing mainly on French Dauphine and Nigerian Igboland - to consider the role color plays in encounters with supernatural characters from diverse
Ugochukwu, Francoise
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Visual Fictions and the U.S. Treasury Courtesans: Images of 19th-Century Female Clerks in the Illustrated Press

Belphégor, 2015
During the Civil War, the United States Treasury began hiring female clerks to work within its departments, a decision that would lead to the federal government becoming, according to historian Cindy Sondik Aron, “the first large, sexually integrated ...
Midori V. Green
doaj   +1 more source

Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico [PDF]

, 2010
{Excerpt} This book tells the political story of how migrants from Morocco and Mexico changed the communities they left, and how their initiatives, small and bold, would ultimately transform the nations from which they had emigrated. Accounts of the ways
Iskander, Natasha
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Entre exportation et importation : La création de la chanson québécoise selon la presse artistique, 1960 - 1980 [PDF]

, 2007
Cet article cherche à comprendre comment la chanson québécoise a gagné le statut d’emblème culturel national durant les années 1960 et 1970 et comment cette construction sociale a contribué à la redéfinition de l’identité collective survenue à cette ...
Durand, Caroline
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Introduction

Belphégor, 2021
Simon Bréan, Matthieu Letourneux
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L’apprentissage politique en zones d’exclusion, de conflits et d’organisation populaire [PDF]

, 2008
Cet article évalue différentes approches théoriques de l’apprentissage politique en situations d’exclusion sociale, de conflits et d’organisation populaire, par l’étude d’un groupe de favelas situées en bordure du centre-ville de Florianópolis, dans l ...
Krischke, Paulo J.
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ENTRE A BELEZA DO MORTO E A CULTURA VIVA: a(s) cultura(s) popular(es) na virada do milênio e seus mediadores simbólicos

Caderno CRH
O objetivo do artigo é contribuir para o debate sobre o tema da “cultura popular”, abraçado na universidade por diferentes disciplinas como a Antropologia, a História, a Literatura, a Sociologia e outras.
Maria Celeste Mira
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The French Revolution and early European revolutionary terrorism [PDF]

, 2015
This chapter discusses some of the antecedents to the 'Terror' in the French Revolution before exploring the relationship between different forms of political terror in the 1790s in revolutionary France.
Rapport, Mike
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