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Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Welfare State : A Political Economy Model

Bossi, Luca - 2011

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility …

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From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy : A Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions

De la Croix, David - 2012

Consider an economy populated by males and females, both rich and poor. The society has to choose one of the following marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the conditions under which each of these equilibria...

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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility

Ichino, Andrea - 2010

The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....

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Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2018

effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later …

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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool : Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

Heckman, James J. - 2013

This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...

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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption

Cervellati, Matteo - 2013

equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should …

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The Scandinavian Fantasy : The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S

Landersø, Rasmus - 2016

This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries....

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …

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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution : Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Cruces, Guillermo - 2011

agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …

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