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We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main …
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in the population who interacts with a (richer) agenda setter in Congress in setting redistribution. While the setter … managed to cap redistribution in the pre-war period, the War itself pushed up the status-quo tax burden, raising the … bargaining power of the median voter as defense spending receded. This raised the equilibrium level of redistribution. The higher …
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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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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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people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
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inflation-reduction policy. The central idea is that the decision on membership of the union leads to a redistribution between …
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The answer to the question posed in the title is ‘yes’. Using a total of 128,106 answers to a survey question about ‘happiness’, we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the US. There are two potential explanations....
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In this Paper, we study the role of subsidies to fertility in ensuring the political viability of unfunded social security (SS). In our model, agents are heterogeneous in age and income. Young generations confront promises made previously by older generations, and in turn choose current levels...
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The political process often compensates the losers from technical change or international competition in an economically inefficient way, namely by subsidizing or protecting declining industries instead of encouraging the movement of resources to other more productive uses. We find that a...
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