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Income Distributions versus Lotteries: Happiness, Response Mode Effects and Preference Reversals

Morone, Andrea; Seidl, Christian; Camacho-Cuena, Eva - EconWPA - 2004

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Social Preferences and Relational Contracting Performance: An Experimental Investigation

Roe, Brian; Wu, Steven Y. - EconWPA - 2005

Economics 117(2002): 817-869]. Subjects’ behavior during the Charness and Rabin experiment is a significant predictor of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561830

Gains from a Redrawing of Political Boundaries: Evidence from State Reorganization in India

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the impact of a redrawing of political boundaries on voting patterns. It investigates whether secession of states leads to gains in terms of better conformity of the electorate's political preferences with those of the elected representatives. We study these issues in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407801

Household Wealth, Public Consumption, and Economic Well-Being in the United States

Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Caner, Asena - EconWPA - 2003

Standard official measures of economic well-being are based on money income. The general consensus is that such measures are seriously flawed because they ignore several crucial determinants of well-being. We examine two such determinants-household wealth and public consumption-in the context of...

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The Impact of Inflation on Income Tax and Social Insurance Contributions in Europe

Immervoll, Herwig - EconWPA - 2003

Inflation can alter the characteristics of tax- and contribution systems in numerous ways. This paper demonstrates how inflation alters the distributive properties of nominally defined tax systems and looks at the impact of the tax revenues and social insurance contribution receipts generated....

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Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction, and Average Well-Being under Different Income Distributions

Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan; Morone, Andrea - EconWPA - 2004

This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to … investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency theory to explain back-ground context effects …-frequency theory can be evidenced. Moreover, we demonstrate a welfare paradox which concerns a contradiction between individual income …

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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...

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The evolution of income inequality in the European Union

Alvarez-Garcia, Santiago; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; … - EconWPA - 2003

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. Using the information contained in the European Community Household Panel, corresponding to the four first waves. Using the inverse second order stochastic...

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The median voter hypothesis, income inequality and income

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

example, it has been proposed that greater inequality is associated with lower growth, because of the greater redistribution … median-voter hypothesis concerning redistribution, because of previous absence of data on factor income distribution (that is …, incomes before taxes and transfers) across households, and thus on the gains by poorer households from redistribution. The …

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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619

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