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

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2011

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

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The Devil is in the Shadow – Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or only Official Income and Official Productivity?

Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2007

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2009

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

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The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health

Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - CESifo - 2008

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …

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