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

Lind, Jo Thori; Rhoner, Dominic - 2011 - Publisert 30. nov. 2011 15:41

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 a ecting 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

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740156

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

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2021

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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The political economy of beliefs : why fiscal and social conservatives/liberals come hand-in-hand

Chen, Daniel L.; Lind, Jo Thori - 2016

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Are some people more equal than others? : experimental evidence on group identity and income inequality

Lustenhouwer, Joep; Makarewicz, Tomasz; Peña, Juan Carlos - 2021

We investigate the effects of group identity and income inequality on social preferences and polarization by means of a laboratory experiment. We split our subjects into two populations: in-group (representing "natives") and out-group ("migrants"). In-group subjects repeatedly vote whether an...

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EU-Erweiterung und Arbeitskräftemigration : Wege zu einer schrittweisen Annäherung der Arbeitsmärkte

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Flaig, Gebhard; Werding, Martin; … - 2001

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Sozialordnung sind die Auswirkungen der geplanten EU-Osterweiterung auf die Arbeitsmärkte und die öffentlichen Finanzen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Zur Abschätzung des Migrationspotentials nach der...

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EU enlargement and labour-force migration : proposals for a gradual convergence of labour markets

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Flaig, Gebhard; Werding, Martin; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und … - 2001

estimate the migration potential after EU enlargement, econometric-based simulation models are used for the four most heavily …

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Social Polarization and Partisan Voting in Representative Democracies

Duell, Dominik - 2018

identity, there has been little analysis of how social polarization impacts voting. In this paper, we incorporate social … partisan voting. We show that social identity has an indirect effect on voting through voters' beliefs regarding the ex post … experiment designed to identify the relative effect of the two channels. We find that social polarization causes partisan voting …

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Did austerity cause Brexit?

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018

Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …

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