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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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Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment
Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
exploit this fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian … rural branch expansion programme significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. …
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Getting Better or Feeling Better? How Equity Investors Respond to Investment Experience
Campbell, John Y; Ramadorai, Tarun; Ranish, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Using a large representative sample of Indian retail equity investors, many of them new to the stock market, we show that both years of investment experience and feedback from investment returns have significant effects on investor behavior, favored stock styles, and performance. We identify two...
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The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature, inequality will then be associated with less, rather...
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The Distributional Consequences of Russia's Transition
Doyle, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498039
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Openness, Inequality and Poverty: Endowments Matter
de Melo, Jaime; Gourdon, Julien; Maystre, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, this paper finds consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in inequality in countries well-endowed in highly...
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Structural Adjustment, Macroeconomic Adjustment and Poverty: A Methodology for Analysis
Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986
estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661633
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504312