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Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …

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Property Crime with Private Protection: A Market-for-Offenses Approach

Hotte, Louis; Valognes, Fabrice; van Ypersele, Tanguy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and victims equates the average returns to crime. We...

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Community and Class Antagonism

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from which outsiders are excluded. We formulate the...

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A Theory of Political Transitions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

redistributive than a nondemocratic regime, and this gives the elite an incentive to mount a coup. Because inequality makes democracy … relationship between inequality and redistribution is nonmonotonic; societies with intermediate levels of inequality consolidate …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....

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How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Kuziemko, Ilyana; Norton, Michael I; Saez, Emmanuel; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using … interactive information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax …. We find that the informational treatment has very large effects on whether respondents view inequality as an important …

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How Useful is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct?

Kanbur, Ravi; Wagstaff, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. More recently, the concepts and measures have begun to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors like health and education. Indeed, it is argued that one advantage of focusing on equality of opportunity is that...

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Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey through Revolution, Reform and Openness

Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist … Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of … integration in the late 1990s. Regional inequality in China in 1999 exceeds the level experienced at its peak in the Cultural …

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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …

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Inequality of Earnings

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

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