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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. …

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Government Transfers and Political Support

Miguel, Edward Andrew; Manacorda, Marco; Vigorito, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a pre-treatment eligibility score, we find that beneficiary households are 11 to 14...

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Left, Right, Left: Income, Learning and Political Dynamics

Morrow, John; Carter, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labor supply, aggregate … welfare state. More generally, the paper develops a theory of collective beliefs and motivated cognitions, including those …

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Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: The POUM Hypothesis

Benabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they or their children … in large-scale expropriation and highly progressive redistribution. But is it compatible with everyone -- especially the …

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Fifty Million Voters Can't Be Wrong: Economic Self-Interest and Redistributive Politics

Vigdor, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

relative utility comparisons, support for redistribution depends not only on absolute income but on one's status relative to a …

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"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications

Kuziemko, Ilyana; Buell, Ryan W.; Reich, Taly; Norton, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place …" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone …

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime

Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We investigate the effects of broad-based work incentives on female crime by exploiting the welfare reform legislation of the 1990s, which dramatically increased employment among women at risk for relying on cash assistance. We find that welfare reform decreased female property crime arrests by...

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Child Cash Benefits and Family Expenditures: Evidence from the National Child Benefit

Milligan, Kevin; Stabile, Mark; Jones, Lauren E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. Income may improve child outcomes through two mechanisms. First, income may improve development outcomes if it improves a family’s ability to purchase direct inputs into child...

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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Borghans, Lex; Gielen, Anne Christina; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial "social support...

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