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Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Bigger governments raise the possibilities for corruption; more corruption may in turn raise the support for redistributive policies that intend to correct the inequality and injustice generated by corruption. We formalize these insights in a simple dynamic model. A positive feedback from past...

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Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy : What's New?

Helliwell, John - 2005

This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being...

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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract

Benabou, Roland - 2004

The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country's economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...

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Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, The Swedish Way

Bjorklund, Anders - 1994

Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely because of its system of earnings and income determination, not because of the homogeneity of the...

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Friends with Benefits : Social Capital and Household Financial Behavior

Cannon, Brad; Hirshleifer, David; Thornton, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using friendship data from Facebook, we study the effects of three aspects of social capital on household financial behavior. We find that the most important measure of social capital in explaining stock market and saving participation is Economic Connectedness, defined as the fraction of one's...

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Horizontal and Vertical Conflict : Experimental Evidence

Galiani, Sebastian - 2016

Two types of political conflicts of interest pervade many of the world's societies. A horizontal conflict of interest arises when different constituencies support different policies, while a vertical conflict of interest emerges when those in charge of running the government acquire and retain...

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Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

Rothschild, Casey - 2011

strong intrinsic desire for progressive redistribution. Intuitively, taxing their effort at a lower rate stimulates their …

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution : A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Battisti, Michele - 2014

redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries … 1990, East Germans lived under a Communist regime with heavy state intervention and extensive redistribution. We find that …, after German reunification, East Germans are more in favor of redistribution and state intervention than West Germans, even …

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Unequal Societies

Benabou, Roland - 1996

imperfections make future earning a function of current resources. Combined with the politics of redistribution this creates the … potential for multiple steady-states, with mutually reinforcing high inequality and low redistribution, or vice-versa. Temporary …

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