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Inflation, Inequality and Social Conflict

Crowe, Christopher - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

will tend to be higher in countries with higher inequality and with greater pro-rich bias in the political system …. Conversely, the use of income tax will be higher in countries with lower inequality and less pro-rich bias. The model also … predicts that although inequality and political bias will have an impact on the composition of revenue, it will have no effect …

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Spend It Like Beckham? Inequality and Redistribution in the UK, 1983-2004

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using …

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A Model of Equilibrium Institutions

Guimaraes, Bernardo; Sheedy, Kevin D. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Institutions that serve the interests of an elite are often cited as an important reason for poor economic performance. This paper builds a model of institutions that allocate resources and power to maximize the payoff of an elite, but where any group that exerts sufficient fighting effort can...

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On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict

Caselli, Francesco; II, Wilbur John Coleman - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

ethnic groups, group sizes, income inequality, and expropriable resources. …

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A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class - a coarse measure of student performance used in the UK - causally affects graduates' industry and hence expected wages. To control for unobserved ability, we employ a regression discontinuity...

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Giving a Little Help to Girls? Evidence on Grade Discrimination and its Effect on Students' Achievement

Terrier, Camille - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique dataset containing grades given by teachers, scores obtained anonymously by pupils at different ages, and their course choice during high school. Based on double-differences, the...

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In brief: University exam results matter

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

As thousands of undergraduates across the UK take their exams, a study by Andy Feng and Georg Graetz reveals the importance of the results for subsequent earnings - specifically the value of a First compared with an Upper Second and the difference between an Upper Second and a Lower Second.

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Is Happiness a Predictor of Election Results?

Ward, George - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Is it in politicians' interest to focus policy on subjective well-being (SWB)? Many governments and international organisations have recently begun to measure progress at least partly in terms of the population's SWB or "happiness". This paper investigates the extent to which citizens themselves...

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Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability

Caselli, Francesco; Tesei, Andrea - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We document the following regularities. Natural resource windfalls have no effect on the political system when they occur in democracies. However, windfalls have significant political consequences...

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Left, Right, Left: Income and Political Dynamics in Transition Economies

Carter, Michael; Morrow, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. While the implications of upward mobility for the political preferences of forward-looking voters have been...

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