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Gassner, Marjorie; Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Verardi, … - EconWPA - 2005

The aim of this paper is to test if electoral systems and human development are linked. Using high quality data and very simple panel data econometric techniques, we show that electoral systems play a critical role in explaining the difference in the levels of human development between...

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"Competing Pressure Groups, Income Distribution and Growth"

MAURO, Luciano - EconWPA

theoretical background for redistribution policies such as land reform. The present model has the advantage to link growth to …

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The median voter hypothesis, income inequality and income

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

example, it has been proposed that greater inequality is associated with lower growth, because of the greater redistribution … median-voter hypothesis concerning redistribution, because of previous absence of data on factor income distribution (that is …, incomes before taxes and transfers) across households, and thus on the gains by poorer households from redistribution. The …

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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...

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The Political Economy of Redistribution Under Asymmetric Information

Dhami, Sanjit - EconWPA - 2001

This paper examines the political economy of redistribution when voters have asymmetric information about the …

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You Get What You Vote For: Electoral Determinants of Economic Freedom

Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002

While several cross-sectional studies (La Porta et. al. 2002, Norton 2002) examine institutional and cultural determinants of economic freedom, changes in economic freedom remain unexamined. I construct a measure of median voter preferences and find changes in voter preferences for economic...

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Reputation, Cheap Talk and Delegation

Sanyal, Amal; Sengupta, Kunal - EconWPA - 2005

A decision maker is contemplating an action whose outcome is state dependent. She has a ‘prior’ over the states of the world and before choosing an action, she can consult an ‘expert’. We model the communication game between the decision maker and the expert as a ‘cheap-talk’ game....

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Income Distributions versus Lotteries: Happiness, Response Mode Effects and Preference Reversals

Morone, Andrea; Seidl, Christian; Camacho-Cuena, Eva - EconWPA - 2004

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The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian

Corak, Miles; Heisz, Andrew - EconWPA - 1998

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than...

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The evolution of income inequality in the European Union

Alvarez-Garcia, Santiago; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; … - EconWPA - 2003

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. Using the information contained in the European Community Household Panel, corresponding to the four first waves. Using the inverse second order stochastic...

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