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Perceptions and Preferences for Redistribution
Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The relationship between the degree of inequality and the demand for redistribution has been a central question in political science and political economy. The famous median-voter model predicts that higher inequality, reflected in a growing gap between the income of the average and the median...
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Diversity and Redistribution
Fernández, Raquel - 2005
general redistributive tax which is lumpsum rebated and a series of taxes whose revenue is used to fund specific (targeted …
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The Median Voter and the Median Consumer : Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting
Waldfogel, Joel - 2006
When a product's product provision entails fixed costs, it will be made available only if a sufficient number of people want it. Some products are produced and consumed locally, so that provision requires not only a large group favoring the product but a large number nearby. Just as one has an...
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Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution : A Laboratory Study
Agranov, Marina - 2014
This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment that investigates the Meltzer-Richard model of equilibrium tax … determine tax rates. We report four main findings. First, higher wage inequality leads to higher tax rates. The effect is … significant and large in magnitude. Second, the average implemented tax rates are almost exactly equal to the theoretical ideal …
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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth
Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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Financing Infrastructure in the Shadow of Expropriation
Acharya, Viral V.; Parlatore, Cecilia; Sundaresan, Suresh M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. The model captures several other features prevalent in infrastructure financing such as government co-investment, tax …
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U.S. School Finance : Resources and Outcomes
Handel, Danielle V.; Hanushek, Eric Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The impact of school resources on student outcomes was first raised in the 1960s and has been controversial since then. This issue enters into the decision making on school finance in both legislatures and the courts. The historical research found little consistent or systematic relationship of...
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Distributional Weights in Economic Analysis
Hahn, Robert William; Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The use of distributional weights in economic analysis is receiving increasing attention in both research and policy circles. This paper examines the extent to which distributional weights affect economic analysis of public good provision. We make two contributions. First, we present a model...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods
Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...
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Variation in State Response to Open Access : Constituent Characteristics
Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Open access, competitive exploitation can be incredibly damaging to valuable resources and the human populations that depend upon them. Even though wealth, resource rents and stocks are at stake, open access often seems to be ineffectively addressed across time and space. Institutions vary....
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