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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

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...

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Resource windfalls, political regimes, and political stability

Caselli, Francesco; Tesei, Andrea - 2011

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Income misperception and populism

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022

We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...

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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day

Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …

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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … bloc and in other countries around the world. Additional findings document that demography's effect partly captures … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …

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The state and income inequality in Brazil

Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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Social institutions and economic inequality : modeling the onset of the Kuznets curve

Alvarez-Pereira, Brais; Bale, Catherine S. E.; Furtado, … - 2015

Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding of the timing of the process and the presence of additional mechanisms affecting its timing. This paper proposes an agent-based version of Acemoglu and Robinson's model of the...

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Mobility of top incomes in Germany

Jenderny, Katharina - 2013

Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use microlevel panel data of German income tax files...

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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures

Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016

Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in...

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...

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