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Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

create a “simulated tax redistribution index”, which captures the mechanical impact of the changes in tax policy on the gini … coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … process further, I create a new class of tax redistribution measures, based on the S-Gini, which differentially weight effects …

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Estimating the Impact of Gubernatorial Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using panel data from US states over the period 1941-2002, I measure the impact of gubernatorial partisanship on a wide range of different policy settings and economic outcomes. Across 32 measures, there are surprisingly few differences in policy settings, social outcomes and economic outcomes...

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What’s the Difference Between a Donkey and an Elephant? Using Panel Data from US States to Estimate the Impact of Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

Using panel data from US states, I measure the impact of partisanship on a wide range of different policy settings and economic outcomes. Across 32 measures, there are surprisingly few differences in policy settings, social outcomes and economic outcomes under Democrats and Republicans. In terms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032821

The Effects of Drug Subsidies on Out-of-Poket Prescription Drug Expenditures by seniors: regional Evidence from Canada.

Crossley, Thomas F.; Grootendorst, Paul; Kokkmaz, Sule; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2000

In this study we try to evaluate some of the redistributive aspects of public drug plan for seniors by examining the effects on out-of-pocket expenditures of such drug plan in Canada.

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Bias at the Ballot Box? Testing Whether Candidates' Gender Affects Their Vote

King, Amy; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

Using data from all elections to the Australian House of Representatives between 1903 and 2004, we examine the relationship between candidates’ gender and their share of the vote. We find that the vote share of female candidates is 0.6 percentage points smaller than that of male candidates...

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Permanent Income Inequality: Australia, Britain, Germany, and the United States Compared

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

A common critique of most measures of income inequality, which are based on a single year's income, is that they fail to take account of income mobility. If income fluctuations are large, and individuals can smooth consumption, then high inequality and high mobility may be no worse than low...

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The Role of Government in Work and Welfare

Keating, M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

Societies typically have three objectives for work and welfare: sustained income/economic growth per capita, employment growth (and job security?), a just distribution of income along with access to certain basic services. There may be tensions between these objectives. This paper tries to...

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Deriving Long-Run Inequality Series from Tax Data

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

Prior to the last three decades, regular surveys on household income were rare or non-existent in many developed countries, making it difficult for economists to develop long-run series on income distribution. Using taxation statistics, which tend to be available over a longer time span, I...

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Earnings Inequality in Australia: Changes, Causes and Consequences.

Borland, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

This paper studies the changes in earnings inequality. It also examines the causes and consequences of this changes.

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More Inequality, Less Social Mobility

Andrews, Dan; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the...

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