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Sources of US longevity increase, 1960 - 1997

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2000

this paper we investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the annual time …-series behavior of U.S. longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and output … annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual data are …

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How does exposure to Covid-19 influence health and income inequality aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2021

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …

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Immunity-driven comparative advantage and its palliative effect on social health and inequality : a theoretical perspective

Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2022

We propose a model of "trade" between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...

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Economic interests, worldviews and identities : theory and evidence on ideational politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - 2021

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

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Do left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants? : empirical evidence from the German states

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020

We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...

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Will destination-based taxes be fully exploited when available? : an application to the U.S. commodity tax system

Agrawal, David R.; Mardan, Mohammed - 2018

We develop a tax competition model that allows for the setting of both an origin-based and a destination-based commodity tax rate in the presence of avoidance and evasion. In the presence of evasion, jurisdictions will give cross-border shoppers tax preferential treatment, thus not fully...

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Experienced inequality and preferences for redistribution

Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2016

We examine in how far people's experiences of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We use several large nationally representative datasets to provide evidence that people who have experienced more inequality while growing up are less in favor of redistribution, after...

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Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States

Potrafke, Niklas - 2017

This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies using data for the national, state and local level and elaborate on checks and balances, especially divided government, measurement of government ideology and empirical...

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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government

Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017

Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...

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Structural reforms and income inequality : who benefits from market-oriented reforms?

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2020

We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...

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