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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs

Fong, Christina M.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our theory predicts that target-specific beliefs about the poor matter most … welfare recipients supports our theory. We also find, in theory, the ex-istence of a moral release equilibrium in which the …

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Income taxes, property values, and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - In: Journal of public economics 92 (2008) 3/4, pp. 915-923

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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...

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Preferences for redistribution and international migration

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018

The Tiebout hypothesis suggests that people who migrate from more to less redistributive countries are more negative towards redistribution than non-migrants. However, differences between migrants' and non-migrants' redistributive preferences might also reflect self-interest. We present a model...

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