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Does Higher Education Cause Political Participation?: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design

Solis, Alex - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

explaining political participation: voter turnout, civic engagement, political knowledge, and democratic attitudes. However, only … of higher education and college on two measures of political participation: voter registration and affiliation with a … cause changes in attitudes towards democracy, political knowledge, participation in demonstrations or in civic organizations …

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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests.

Lundholm, M.; Ohlsson, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...

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Marriage, Housework and Fairness.

Widmalm, F. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

I explore the effects of a preference for fairness in the division of housework between two spouses in two different models of household time allocation. Both in the model with agreeing spouses and the model with noncooperative spouses, such a preference has an equalising effect on the division...

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Are Commodity Taxes Regressive? Evidence from Sweden

Lundin, Douglas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

The distributional consequences of commodity taxes have become more important as industrialized countries have started to raise more revenue using these taxes. In this paper the distributional consequences of commodity taxes are evaluated using both disposable income and total expenditure as...

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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests

Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

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Optimal Utilitarian Taxation and Horizontal Equity

Jordahl, Henrik; Micheletto, Luca - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002

We impose a horizontal equity restriction on the problem of finding the optimal utilitarian tax mix. The horizontal equity constraint requires that individuals with the same ability have to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of their preferences for leisure. Contrary to normal findings, we...

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Economic or Non-Economic Factors – What Empowers Women?

B, Ranjula; Wallentin, Fan Yang - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008

, behavioural changes, education and networking, communication and political participation and awareness) are measured using …

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Inequality Generating Processes and Measurement of the Matthew Effect

Bask, Miia; Bask, Mikael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

The first aim of this paper is to clarify the differences and relationships between cumulative advantage/disadvantage and the Matthew effect. Its second aim, which is also its main contribution, is not only to present a new measure of the Matthew effect, but also to show how to estimate this...

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Optimal Inequality behind the Veil of Ignorance

Liang, Che-Yuan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

under risk and arrives at utilitarianism using expected utility theory. This paper investigates the implications of applying … prospect theory instead, which better describes behavior under risk. I find that the specific type of inequality in bottom …

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Every man for himself. Gender, Norms and Survival in Maritime Disasters

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of ‘women and children first’ gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters...

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