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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence

Konrad, Kai A.; Spadaro, Amedeo - 2005

redistribution among young individuals. …

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The quest for more and more education: Implications for social mobility

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2012

In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and show that this rise has featured faster increases in education acquisition by people from...

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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis

Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003

under which some individuals that are poorer than the average optimally choose to oppose redistribution policies. The … provided the mobility process is concave in expectations, redistribution policies are expected to last for a sufficiently long … of inequality are used as treatments. Other determinants of the demand for redistribution, such as risk aversion and …

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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country?s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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The political economy of intergenerational income mobility

Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Moretti, Enrico - 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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From polygyny to serial monogamy: A unified theory of marriage institutions

De la Croix, David; Mariani, Fabio - 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 Job Protection and Income Redistribution

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - 2004

alternative institutional options: the degree of labour market flexibility and the intensity of redistribution. We show that the … (positive flexibility versus positive redistribution). …

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War and endogenous democracy

Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008

aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of … an oligarchy adopting a mass-army may voluntarily decide to promise some amount of income redistribution to its citizens …-compatible redistribution, they may cope with the moral hazard problem of the citizens-soldiers only by relinquishing political power to them …

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Preferences for childcare policies: theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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

Heckman, James J.; Raut, Lakshmi Kanta - 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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