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Leaky bucket in the real world : estimating inequality aversion using survey data
Pirttilä, Jukka (contributor); Uusitalo, Roope (contributor) - 2007
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Inequality of opportunity and income redistribution
Preuß, Marcel; Reyes, Germán; Somerville, Jason; Wu, Joyce - 2023
We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and whether luck magnified workers' effort ("lucky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251993
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(In-)equality of opportunity, fairness, and distributional preferences
Fehr, Dietmar; Müller, Daniel; Preuß, Marcel - 2022
This paper examines how perceived importance of family background affect distributional pref-erences using two large-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income and economic success later in life, which renders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411680
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Inequality undermines democracy and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar <30., … - 2019 - Final version 21 January 2019
in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010
mitigation ; income inequality ; democracy ; trade ; welfare ; collective choice ; political economy …
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Populism and social polarization in European democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
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Political capitalism : the interaction between income inequality, economic freedom and democracy
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2015
distribution) when inequality is high. We argue that the latter finding corresponds to a system of political capitalism or captured … democracy, where a powerful economic elite cooperates with politicians and bureaucrats for their mutual benefit. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411131
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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?
Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...
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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America
Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022
that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen our … Survey, we use an instrumental variable approach to test the effect of Chinese aid on attitudes toward democracy in 18 Latin … democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …
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