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Determinants of governmental redistribution

Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2015

This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. We retest the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis and account for a plethora of political, institutional, and cultural forces that influence the scope of redistribution. Extended and harmonized data on effective redistribution...

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Policy regimes, inequality, poverty and growth : the Chilean experience, 1973 - 2010

Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2012

Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time … 1990s, resulting from better economic and social policies in the return to democracy. Nonetheless, Chile still faces … significant challenges to improve development. There must be an active macroeconomic policy focused on the real economy. Chile …

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Inequality and redistribution via the public provision of private goods

Katsimē, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2004

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Distributional Weights : An Overview

Adler, Matthew D. - 2014

Standard cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is insensitive to distributional concerns. A policy that improves the lives of the rich, and makes the poor yet worse off, will be approved by CBA as long as the policy’s aggregate monetized benefits are positive. Distributional weights offer an apparent...

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Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal

Kireev, Aleksej P. - 2013

The paper examines Senegal's growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducingand distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help makegrowth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in the last two decades,but poverty reduction has slowed...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Distributional Weights : An Overview

Adler, Matthew D. - 2014

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is notoriously insensitive to distributional concerns, favoring a policy with a positive sum of monetary equivalents, even if better-off individuals are benefitted at the expense of worse-off ones. This problem is sometimes mitigated, in practice, by monetizing goods...

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Political Inequality

Cagé, Julia - 2023

Inequality in political participation and influence has strongly increased in recent decades. In this paper, we focus on three aspects of political inequality: the increasing concentration of both political and charitable donations, the growing gap in descriptive representation, and the...

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Distributive politics and asymmetric participation

Araújo, Victor; Kerler, Philipp - 2025

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Redistribution of Return Inequality

Schulz, Karl - 2021

Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth. The leading example is a financial market, where the...

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Income inequality, inequality of opportunity and redistributive policies

Niehues, Judith - 2011

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