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Redistribution or education? : the political economy of the social race
Bernasconi, Michele (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496522
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Optimal carbon taxation and horizontal equity : a welfare theoretic approach with application to German household data
Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021
We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by …-efficient households if and only if social inequality aversion is sufficiently high. We further find that redistribution of carbon tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485343
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Normative analysis with societal constraints
Boadway, Robin W.; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2013
This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765042
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Cooperation creates special moral obligations
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Gauri, Varun; Tungodden, Bertil - 2018
A large-scale economic experiment, conducted on a representative sample of the US population, shows that cooperation creates special moral obligations. Participants in the experiment, acting as impartial spectators, transferred significantly more money to an unlucky worker when two individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847597
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Strategic campaigns and redistributive politics
Schultz, Christian - 2003
The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514172
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The political economy of redistribution policy
Bellani, Luna; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016
We review the literature on the public choice approach to explaining redistribution policies. The focus is on policies … that are pursued with the sole reason to redistribute initial endowments. Moreover, we restrict ourselves to redistribution … in democracies. In democratic settings, generic redistribution games lack equilibria. Structure-inducing rules that give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565576
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Inequality and redistribution via the public provision of private goods
Katsimē, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2004
The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402700
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The consequences of inequality : beliefs and redistributive preferences
Lobeck, Max; Støstad, Morten Nyborg - 2023
What matters for individuals' preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about … shape a distinct conversation about redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383934
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A matter of perspective : how experience shapes preferences for redistribution
Cassar, Lea; Klein, Arnd Heinrich - 2017
for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588059
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Redistributive politics and the tyranny of the middle class
Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2016
The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458047