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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a …

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Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law

Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and … inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …

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A Theory of Political Entrenchment

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution … theory for constitutionally legislated term limits is also discussed. The theory sheds light on why left-wing parties or …

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Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...

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The Vanishing Bequest Tax: The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

gradual reduction due to declining wealth inequality. A number of extensions to the basic model allow to match our theory with …

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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politicoeconomic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...

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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...

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Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender …

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