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We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main …
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in the population who interacts with a (richer) agenda setter in Congress in setting redistribution. While the setter … managed to cap redistribution in the pre-war period, the War itself pushed up the status-quo tax burden, raising the … bargaining power of the median voter as defense spending receded. This raised the equilibrium level of redistribution. The higher …
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We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
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inflation-reduction policy. The central idea is that the decision on membership of the union leads to a redistribution between …
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The answer to the question posed in the title is ‘yes’. Using a total of 128,106 answers to a survey question about ‘happiness’, we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the US. There are two potential explanations....
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and family support systems during the demographic transition. Our results indicate that the seemingly explosive evolution …
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The political process often compensates the losers from technical change or international competition in an economically inefficient way, namely by subsidizing or protecting declining industries instead of encouraging the movement of resources to other more productive uses. We find that a...
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and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …
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by governments concerned with the costs of inflation and unemployment, as well as with redistribution to particular …
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