We consider the notion of welfare stigma à la Besley and Coate (1992b). This stigma is attributed to welfare claimants … by society when they are perceived as undeserving in the sense that they falsely claim to be eligible for welfare … benefits. However, due to imperfect information, this stigma may be extended, with some probability, to all welfare claimants …

corresponding to its ideology if it has ruled the municipality several legislatures in a row.The paper proposes an empirical …

whether government ideology predicts the levels and increases in the real estate transfer tax rates; and show that leftwing …

This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies …, measurement of government ideology and empirical strategies to identify causal effects. Many studies conclude that parties do …, but these studies using data for the national level do not derive causal effects. Ideology-induced policies are prevalent …

. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating …

We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD …‐income countries. Our findings confirm partisan politics hypotheses because grants are closely analogous to domestic social welfare … transfer payments, and poverty and inequality are of greatest concern for less developed recipient countries …

reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths’ ideology. To measure …

natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that …