Taxing identity: theory and evidence from early Islam
| Autor: | Mohamed Saleh, Jean Tirole |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), ANR-17-EURE-0010,CHESS,Toulouse Graduate School défis en économie et sciences sociales quantitatives(2017) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
business.product_category Poll tax Population Ethnic group Identity (social science) Context (language use) Islam Social group Ruler 0502 economics and business Sociology 050207 economics Social identity theory education B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE Legitimacy 050205 econometrics education.field_of_study 05 social sciences [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance Identity taxation Political economy Laffer curve business |
| Zdroj: | Econometrica Econometrica, 2021, 89 (4), pp.1881-1919. ⟨10.3982/ECTA17265⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1468-0262 |
| Popis: | National audience; A ruler who does not identify with a social group, whether on religious, ethnic, cultural or socioeconomic grounds, is confronted with a trade-off between taking advantage of the out-group population’s eagerness to maintain its identity and inducing it to “comply” (conversion, quit, exodus or any other way of accommodating the ruler’s own identity). This paper first nests economists’ extraction model, in which rulers are revenue-maximizers, within a more general identity-based model, in which rulers care also about inducing people to lose their identity, both in a static and an evolving environment. The paper then constructs novel data sources to test the implications of both models in the context of Egypt’s conversion to Islam between 641 and 1170. The evidence comes in support of the identity-based model. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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