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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008607502
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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 mobility. We estimate the determinants of preferences for redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114467
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320404
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662178
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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labour supply, aggregate … welfare state. More generally, the paper develops a theory of collective beliefs and motivated cognitions, including those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504312
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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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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262883
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Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility
Geys, Benny; Konrad, Kai A.; Qari, Salmai - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082539
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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662063
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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
the low-skilled, and private unemployment insurance is missing. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662250