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political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …
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Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of … economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
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inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …
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To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
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inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …
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We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect …
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In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...
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Recent empirical work has established that 'democracy causes growth'. In this paper, we determine the underlying … institutions, as witnessed recently in many countries, may jeopardise the perpetual growth effect of becoming a liberal democracy … institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and …
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We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
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factor to changes of inequality in society. …
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