Date: 18th Friday, March 2016 Venue: Basement Floor, "Mizuho Hall", Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg. Yoshida Campus, (No.5 building in the map) http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/yoshida/main.html Language: English   Munir Squires (LSE) "Kinship Taxation as a Constraint to Microenterprise Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenya" Abstract: Developing country entrepreneurs face family pressure to share income. This pressure, a kinship tax, can distort capital allocations. I combine evidence from a lab experiment-which allows me to estimate an individual-level sufficient statistic for the distortion-with data I collected on a sample of Kenyan entrepreneurs, to quantify the importance of the tax. My data reveal high kinship tax rates for a third of entrepreneurs [ Read More ]