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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate...

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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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Waiting for Mr Right: Rising Inequality and Declining Marriage Rates

Gould, Eric D; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

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Institutional Traps and Economic Growth

Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper's point of departure is that low-quality institutions, concentration of political power, and underdevelopment are persistent over time. Its analytical model views an equal distribution of political power as a commitment device to enhance institutional quality thereby promoting growth....

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Inequality and Political Consensus

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a model of political consensus in order to explain the missing link between inequality and …-interested politicians propose non-discriminatory policies. We study how much inequality can be sustained in a democracy and how the limits … to redistribution vary with initial inequality. We find that the bounds of the set of political equilibria may react in a …

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How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

countries, I find that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures … measures of inequality over periods when alternative income distribution measures are of low quality, or unavailable …

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The Effects of Assortative Mating on Income Inequality: A Decompositional Analysis

Worner, Shane Mathew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

changing assortative mating patterns on income inequality. Evidence from theoretical and mathematically calibrated models … variables, we find some evidence to suggest that assortative mating has had an influence on the increase in income inequality in …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Australia

Atkinson, A.B.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

-biased technological change, social norms about inequality, and the internationalisation of the market for English-speaking CEOs. …

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Economic Voting and Electoral Behaviour: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

What impact do income and other demographic factors have on a voter’s partisan choice? Using post-election surveys of 14,000 voters in ten Australian elections between 1966 and 2001, I explore the impact that individual, local and national factors have on voters’ decisions. In these ten...

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