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Power Shifts, Emigration, and Population Sorting

Aklin, Michaël; Eichenauer, Vera - 2022

We investigate the consequences of a peaceful shift of power from one social group to another. Theoretically, we show that an individual’s decision to stay put or migrate depends on the difference between the political preferences of groups and the change in tax. Empirically, we use the case...

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Distributional consequences of political representation

Maaser, Nicola; Stratmann, Thomas - In: European economic review : EER 82 (2016), pp. 187-211

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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences

Klimm, Felix - In: European economic review : EER 117 (2019), pp. 36-55

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Immigration and voting for redistribution : evidence from European elections

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 61 (2019), pp. 226-244

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The politics of opting out : explaining educational financing and popular support for public spending

Busemeyer, Marius R.; Iversen, Torben - In: Socio-economic review 12 (2014) 2, pp. 299-328

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Regional resources and democratic secessionism

Gehring, Kai; Schneider, Stephan A. - 2018

Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resource value and inter-regional transfers in a model on the optimal size of nations, and show that...

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Exposure to climate disasters and individual migration aspirations : evidence from Senegal and the Gambia

Pañeda-Fernández, Irene; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2024

How do climate disasters shape migration? The existing evidence presents conflicting and inconclusive findings. To … address this question, we theorize the cognitive processes guiding migration decisions in the wake of disasters. On the one … hand, the link between climate disasters and migration aspirations may be driven by sudden-onset (e.g. heavy rains, storms …

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Knowledge is Power : A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2012

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … in line with our theory …

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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011

in line with our theory. -- redistribution ; welfare spending ; information ; income ; voting ; political economics … informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011

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