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What gives? Household consumption patterns and the ‘Big Trade Off’ with public consumption

Bastagli, Francesca; Hills, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

At the centre of politics in Britain and other countries is what is sometimes called ‘the big trade-off’ – where to strike the balance between private consumption and collective goods and social spending – and hence the sacrifices that would be entailed by the higher taxation required to...

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When does inter-jurisdictional competition engender a "race to the bottom"?: a meta-regression analysis

Costa-i-Font, Joan; De-Albuquerque, Filipe; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

A growing literature documents the existence of strategic political reactions to public expenditure in one jurisdiction on either neighboring or reference jurisdictions. The latter might give raise to downward expenditure spiral, or “race to the bottom”. However, in ascertaining the...

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Eliciting taxpayer preferences increases tax compliance

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Lamberton, Cait; Norton, Michael I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Two experiments show that eliciting taxpayer preferences on government spending—providing taxpayer agency--increases tax compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a lab tax. Allowing a treatment group to express...

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Public and private welfare activity in the United Kingdom, 1979 to 1999

Smithies, Rachel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper analyses the shifting balance between public sector and private sector welfare provision in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. Five sectors – education, health, personal social services, housing, and income maintenance and social security – are examined over three time...

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The revenge of Baumol's cost disease?: monetary union and the rise of public sector wage inflation

Johnston, Alison - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Many political scientists and economists have addressed the implications of the public sector’s sheltered status on their unions’ wage strategies vis-à-vis the government. Since the public sector is a monopoly provider of necessary and price inelastic services, conventional wisdom suggests...

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Testing models of distributive politics using exit polls to measure voter preferences and partisanship

Larcinese, Valentino; Snyder (Jr.), James M.; Testa, Cecilia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper tests various hypotheses about distributive politics by studying the distribution of federal spending across U.S. states over the period 1978-2002. We improve on previous work by using survey data to measure the share of voters in each state that are Democrats, Republicans, and...

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Women in politics: evidence from the Indian states

Clots-Figueras, Irma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper uses panel data from the 16 main states in India during the period 1967- 1999 to study the effects of having higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators make different decisions than men legislators....

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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?

Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …

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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper investigates the economic impact of the government's proposed new UK R&D tax credit. We measure the benefit of the credit by the effect on value added in the short and long_run. This is simulated from existing econometric estimates of the tax_price elasticity of R&D and the effect of...

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Tax compliance and firms' strategic interdependence

Bayer, R; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We focus on a relatively neglected area of the tax-compliance literature in economics, the behaviour of firms. We examine the impact of alternative audit rules on receipts from a tax on profits in the context of strategic inter- dependence of firms. In the market firms may compete in terms of...

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