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Participatory Politics, Social Cooperation, and Economic Stability

Rodrik, Dani - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 140-144

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On the Size of U.S. Government: Political Economy in the Neoclassical Growth Model

Rios-Rull, Jose-Victor; Krusell, Per - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 5, pp. 1156-1181

We study a dynamic version of Meltzer and Richard's median-voter model of the size of government. Taxes are proportional to total income, and they are redistributed as equal lump-sum transfers. Voting takes place periodically over time, and each consumer votes for the tax rate that maximizes his...

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International Financial Crises: Causes, Prevention, and Cures

Summers, Lawrence H. - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 1-16

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A Theory of Political Transitions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 938-963

We develop a theory of political transitions inspired by the experiences of Western Europe and Latin America. Nondemocratic societies are controlled by a rich elite. The initially disenfranchised poor can contest power by threatening revolution, especially when the opportunity cost is low, for...

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Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development

Robinson, James A.; Acemoglu, Daron - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 126-130

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Unequal Societies: Income Distribution and the Social Contract

Benabou, Roland - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 1, pp. 96-129

economic and political "fundamentals" can sustain such different systems of social insurance, fiscal redistribution, and …. Conversely, with credit constraints, lower redistribution translates into more persistent inequality; hence the potential for … multiple steady states, with mutually reinforcing high inequality and low redistribution, or vice versa. …

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The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South

Black, Dan A.; Sanders, Seth G.; Taylor, Evan J.; … - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 2, pp. 477-503

The Great Migration–the massive migration of African Americans out of the rural South to largely urban locations in the North, Midwest, and West–was a landmark event in US history. Our paper shows that this migration increased mortality of African Americans born in the early twentieth...

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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country

Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 376-80

In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...

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Spontaneous Discrimination

Marcin P?ski; Bal?zs Szentes - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 6, pp. 2412-36

We consider a dynamic economy in which agents are repeatedly matched and decide whether or not to form profitable partnerships. Each agent has a physical color and a social color. An agent's social color acts as a signal, conveying information about the physical color of agents in his...

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Does Growing Up in a High Crime Neighborhood Affect Youth Criminal Behavior?

Damm, Anna Piil; Dustmann, Christian - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 6, pp. 1806-32

This paper investigates the effect of early exposure to neighborhood crime on subsequent criminal behavior of youth exploiting a unique natural experiment between 1986 and 1998 when refugee immigrants to Denmark were assigned to neighborhoods quasi-randomly. We find strong evidence that the...

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