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One Third of the World's Growth and Inequality

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …

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Multi-Trait Matching and Intergenerational Mobility: A Cinderella Story

Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Empirical studies of intergenerational social mobility have found that women are more mobile than men. To explain this finding, we describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance, in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage market depends on their market and non-market...

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Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: the POUM Hypothesis

Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they, or their children, may move up the income ladder. This ‘Prospect of Upward Mobility’ (POUM) hypothesis is commonly advanced to explain why democracies do not engage in large-scale...

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …

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Social mobility and redistributive taxation

Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social mobility affect the choices of redistributional taxes. In the absence of social mobility, voters choose tax rates that are very well in line with the prediction derived in the...

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Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities

Alesina, Alberto F; La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The poor favour redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today’s poor into tomorrow’s rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution should depend on the extent and the nature of social...

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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission

Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We propose a dynastic model in which individuals are born in an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the role of social networks on the correlation in the parent-child educational status independent of any parent-child interaction. We show that the...

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Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Porto, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA...

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Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty

Kanbur, Ravi; Sumner, Andy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non … special weight be given to the poor in poor countries? How, if at all, should international agencies with a focus on poverty … greater debate on the new geography of global poverty. …

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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...

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