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Do higher government wages reduce corruption? : evidence based on a novel dataset
Le, Van-ha; Haan, Jakob de; Dietzenbacher, Erik - 2013
with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low-income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743717
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The risks of nation-building through military aid and intervention
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022
This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380559
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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011
. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also … in line with our theory. -- redistribution ; welfare spending ; information ; income ; voting ; political economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314546
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The lifecycle of the 47%
Fullerton, Don; Rao, Nirupama - 2016
with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522136
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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412742
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683363
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Welfare time limits in the United States : experiences with a new welfare-to-work approach
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2004
. Income effects change from positive to neutral in subsequent periods. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449339
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Public pensions in the national accounts and public finance targets
Oksanen, Heikki - 2004
Preparations are underway to revise national accounting to implement actuarial recording of pension liabilities for corporations and government as an employer. This paper extends this to unfunded public pensions with the help of "implicit tax" in pension contributions. The clearest advantages of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449487
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Public pensions and capital accumulation : the case of Brazil
Glomm, Gerhard; Jung, Jürgen; Lee, Changmin; Tran, Chung - 2005
accumulation and steady state income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003121038
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Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act dependent care provision on military participation among young adults
Chatterji, Pinka; Liu, Xiangshi; Yörük, Barış K. - 2018
In this study, we test whether the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to be in the armed forces and to have military health insurance. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach, comparing the outcomes of young adults targeted by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903911