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Augustin Bergeron

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Department of Economics
University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (United States)
https://dornsife.usc.edu/econ/
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Working papers

  1. Jean-Paul Carvalho & Augustin Bergeron & Joseph Henrich & Nathan Nunn & Jonathan L. Weigel, 2023. "Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development," NBER Working Papers 31663, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Weigel, Jonathan & Bergeron, Augustin & Bessone Tepedino , Pedro & Kabeya, John Kabeya & Tourek, Gabriel, 2021. "Optimal Assignment Of Bureaucrats: Evidence From Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors In The Drc," CEPR Discussion Papers 16771, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  3. Weigel, Jonathan & Bergeron, Augustin & Tourek, Gabriel, 2021. "The State Capacity Ceiling On Tax Rates: Evidence From Randomized Tax Abatements In The Drc," CEPR Discussion Papers 16116, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  4. Weigel, Jonathan & Balán, Pablo & Bergeron, Augustin & Tourek, Gabriel, 2020. "Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the D.R. Congo," CEPR Discussion Papers 15138, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  5. Facundo Alvaredo & Augustin Bergeron & Guilhem Cassan, 2017. "Income Concentration in British India, 1885-1946," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 1701, CEPREMAP.

Articles

  1. Pablo Balán & Augustin Bergeron & Gabriel Tourek & Jonathan L. Weigel, 2022. "Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 112(3), pages 762-797, March.
  2. Alvaredo, Facundo & Bergeron, Augustin & Cassan, Guilhem, 2017. "Income concentration in British India, 1885–1946," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 459-469.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Weigel, Jonathan & Bergeron, Augustin & Bessone Tepedino , Pedro & Kabeya, John Kabeya & Tourek, Gabriel, 2021. "Optimal Assignment Of Bureaucrats: Evidence From Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors In The Drc," CEPR Discussion Papers 16771, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Michael Callen & Jonathan L. Weigel & Noam Yuchtman, 2023. "Experiments about Institutions," NBER Working Papers 31964, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Mariana Laverde & Elton Mykerezi & Aaron Sojourner & Aradhya Sood, 2023. "Gains from Reassignment: Evidence from A Two-Sided Teacher Market," Upjohn Working Papers 23-392, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

  2. Weigel, Jonathan & Bergeron, Augustin & Tourek, Gabriel, 2021. "The State Capacity Ceiling On Tax Rates: Evidence From Randomized Tax Abatements In The Drc," CEPR Discussion Papers 16116, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Boeri, Tito & de Porto, Edoardo & Naticchioni, Paolo & Scrutinio, Vincenzo, 2021. "Friday morning fever. Evidence from a randomized experiment on sick leave monitoring in the public sector," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 114391, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Koolwal, Gayatri & Komatsu, Hitomi & Ambel, Alemayehu & Yonis, Manex Bule, 2021. "Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315357, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Thiemo Fetzer & Callum Shaw & Jacob Edenhofer, 2024. "Informational Boundaries of the State," CESifo Working Paper Series 10901, CESifo.
    4. Fetzer, Thiemo & Shaw, Callum & Edenhofer, Jacob, 2024. "Informational Boundaries of the State," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 697, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    5. Fetzer, Thiemo & Shaw, Callum & Edenhofer, Jacob, 2024. "Informational Boundaries of the State," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1487, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.

  3. Weigel, Jonathan & Balán, Pablo & Bergeron, Augustin & Tourek, Gabriel, 2020. "Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the D.R. Congo," CEPR Discussion Papers 15138, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Mohamed Saleh & Jean Tirole, 2021. "Taxing identity: theory and evidence from early Islam," Post-Print hal-03352999, HAL.
    2. van den Boogaard, Vanessa & Beach, Rachel, 2023. "Tax and Governance in Rural Areas: The Implications of Inefficient Tax Collection," Working Papers 17934, Institute of Development Studies, International Centre for Tax and Development.
    3. Manara, Martina & Regan, Tanner, 2020. "Eliciting demand for title deeds: lab-in-the-field evidence from urban Tanzania," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 107538, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Vanessa van den Boogaard & Wilson Prichard & Rachel Beach & Fariya Mohiuddin, 2022. "Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(1), January.

  4. Facundo Alvaredo & Augustin Bergeron & Guilhem Cassan, 2017. "Income Concentration in British India, 1885-1946," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 1701, CEPREMAP.

    Cited by:

    1. Facundo Alvaredo & A.B. Atkinson, 2022. "Top incomes in South Africa in the twentieth century," Post-Print halshs-03324909, HAL.
    2. Lucas Chancel & Thomas Piketty, 2017. "Indian income inequality, 1922-2015 From British Raj to Billionaire Raj ?," World Inequality Lab Working Papers halshs-02794488, HAL.
    3. Roy, Tirthankar, 2018. "Inequality in colonial India," Economic History Working Papers 90409, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    4. Li, Chengyou & Yu, Yangcheng & Li, Qinghai, 2021. "Top-income data and income inequality correction in China," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 210-219.
    5. Alvaredo, Facundo & Cogneau, Denis & Piketty, Thomas, 2020. "Income inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with the Br," CEPR Discussion Papers 14969, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    6. Atkinson, Tony & Alvaredo, Facundo, 2016. "Top Incomes in South Africa Over a Century," INET Oxford Working Papers 2016-06, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.
    7. Alvaredo, Facundo & Cogneau, Denis & Piketty, Thomas, 2020. "Income inequality under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920-1960," African Economic History Working Paper 56/2020, African Economic History Network.
    8. Yajna Govind, 2020. "Post-colonial Trends of Income Inequality: Evidence from the Overseas Departments of France," PSE Working Papers halshs-03022303, HAL.
    9. Kumar, Rishabh, 2019. "The evolution of wealth-income ratios in India 1860-2012," SocArXiv sj6h2, Center for Open Science.
    10. Piketty, Thomas & Chancel, Lucas, 2017. "Indian income inequality, 1922-2014: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj ?," CEPR Discussion Papers 12409, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    11. Rishabh Kumar, 2020. "Top Indian wealth shares and inheritances 1966–1985," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 14(3), pages 551-580, September.

Articles

  1. Pablo Balán & Augustin Bergeron & Gabriel Tourek & Jonathan L. Weigel, 2022. "Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 112(3), pages 762-797, March.

    Cited by:

    1. Bramoulle, Y. & Goyal, S. & Morelli, M., 2024. "Social Structure, State, and Economic Activity," Janeway Institute Working Papers 2411, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    2. Martina Manara & Tanner Regan, 2022. "Ask a local: improving the public pricing of land titles in urban Tanzania," CEP Discussion Papers dp1848, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    3. Rao, Manaswini & Shenoy, Ashish, 2023. "Got (clean) milk? Organization, incentives, and management in Indian dairy cooperatives," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 212(C), pages 708-722.
    4. Rubolino, Enrico, 2023. "Does weak enforcement deter tax progressivity?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 219(C).
    5. Michael Callen & Jonathan L. Weigel & Noam Yuchtman, 2023. "Experiments about Institutions," NBER Working Papers 31964, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Esteban Muñoz-Sobrado & Amedeo Piolatto & Antoine Zerbini & Federica Braccioli, 2024. "The Taxing Challenges of the State: Unveiling the Role of Fiscal & Administrative Capacity in Development," Working Papers 1432, Barcelona School of Economics.
    7. Okunogbe,Oyebola Motunrayo & Santoro,Fabrizio, 2021. "The Promise and Limitations of Information Technology for Tax Mobilization," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9848, The World Bank.
    8. Li, Yuanxiang John & Hoffman, Elizabeth, 2023. "Designing an incentive mechanism for information security policy compliance: An experiment," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 212(C), pages 138-159.
    9. Dario Tortarolo & Pablo Garriga, 2022. "Firms as tax collectors," IFS Working Papers W22/44, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    10. Manwaring, Priya & Regan, Tanner Weldon Dean, 2023. "Public disclosure and tax compliance: evidence from Uganda," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 121298, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    11. Okunogbe,Oyebola Motunrayo & Santoro,Fabrizio, 2022. "Increasing Tax Collection in African Countries : The Role of Information Technology," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10182, The World Bank.
    12. Zucman, Gabriel & Bustos, Sebastian & Pomeranz, Dina & Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos & Vila-Belda, José, 2022. "The Race Between Tax Enforcement and Tax Planning: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Chile," CEPR Discussion Papers 17347, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    13. Immanuel Feld & Thiemo Fetzer, 2024. "Performative State Capacity and Climate (In)Action," CESifo Working Paper Series 10990, CESifo.
    14. Dahis, Ricardo & Szerman, Christiane, 2024. "Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits," IZA Discussion Papers 16761, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    15. James A Robinson, 2023. "Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 32(Supplemen), pages 33-56.
    16. Hoy,Christopher Alexander, 2022. "How Does the Progressivity of Taxes and Government Transfers Impact People’s Willingnessto Pay Tax ? Experimental Evidence across Developing Countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10167, The World Bank.
    17. David R. Agrawal & Jan K. Brueckner & Marius Brülhart, 2024. "Fiscal Federalism in the 21st Century," CESifo Working Paper Series 10951, CESifo.
    18. Jonathan L. Weigel & Elie Kabue Ngindu, 2023. "The taxman cometh: Pathways out of a low‐capacity trap in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 90(360), pages 1362-1396, October.
    19. Callen, Mike & Weigel, Jonathan & Yuchtman, Noam, 2023. "Experiments about institutions," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 122367, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    20. Fetzer, Thiemo & Shaw, Callum & Edenhofer, Jacob, 2024. "Informational Boundaries of the State," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 697, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    21. Immanuel Feld & Thiemo Fetzer, 2024. "Performative State Capacity and Climate (In)Action," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 281, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
    22. Ricardo Dahis & Christiane Szerman, 2024. "Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits," CESifo Working Paper Series 10927, CESifo.
    23. Ricardo Dahis & Christiane Szerman, 2023. "Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits," Monash Economics Working Papers 2023-18, Monash University, Department of Economics.
    24. Saavedra, Santiago, 2022. "The response of illegal mining to revealing its existence," Working papers 89, Red Investigadores de Economía.
    25. Thiemo Fetzer & Callum Shaw & Jacob Edenhofer, 2024. "Informational Boundaries of the State," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 282, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.

  2. Alvaredo, Facundo & Bergeron, Augustin & Cassan, Guilhem, 2017. "Income concentration in British India, 1885–1946," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 459-469.
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  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (2) 2017-11-12 2023-10-02. Author is listed
  2. NEP-IUE: Informal and Underground Economics (2) 2021-05-31 2023-10-23. Author is listed
  3. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (2) 2022-10-03 2023-10-23. Author is listed
  4. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (2) 2022-10-03 2023-10-23. Author is listed
  5. NEP-AFR: Africa (1) 2022-10-03
  6. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (1) 2023-10-02
  7. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (1) 2023-10-23
  8. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2022-10-03
  9. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2021-05-31

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