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The Equality Multiplier
Barth, Erling - 2009
citizens and why countries cluster around different worlds of welfare capitalism---the Scandinavian model, the Anglo …
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Preferences for Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463822
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How the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and Reforms
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2017
Older Americans have experienced dramatic gains in life expectancy in recent decades, but an emerging literature reveals that these gains are accumulating mostly to those at the top of the income distribution. We explore how growing inequality in life expectancy affects lifetime benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455352
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Scaling the Digital Divide : Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement
Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2010
Does differential access to computer technology at home compound the educational disparities between rich and poor? Would a program of government provision of computers to early secondary school students reduce these disparities? We use administrative data on North Carolina public school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462577
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Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity : Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending
Johnson, Rucker C. - 2017
We explore whether early childhood human-capital investments are complementary to those made later in life. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy-induced changes in pre-school (Head Start) spending and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455192
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Non-Production Benefits of Education : Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship
Lochner, Lance - 2011
A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461935
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Education as Liberation?
Friedman, Willa - 2011
Scholars have long speculated about education's political impacts, variously arguing that it promotes modern or pro-democratic attitudes; that it instills acceptance of existing authority; and that it empowers the disadvantaged to challenge authority. To avoid endogeneity bias, if schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461719
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … to be realized when democracy is captured by the richer segments of the population; when it caters to the preferences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458917
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457900
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Capitalism and Democracy in 2040 : Forecasts and Speculations
Fogel, Robert W. - 2007
's global share of GDP means that liberal Asian nations will be poised to take up the role of promoting liberal democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465470