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Minimum wages and voting : assessing the political returns to redistribution outside the tax system
Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2023
The positive political returns to providing cash transfers have been well documented. However, redistribution through …
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Information frictions and learning dynamics : evidence from tax avoidance in Ecuador
Bohne, Albrecht; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian - 2018
We show how experience and dynamic learning processes reduce the obstacles to optimization imposed by information frictions when individuals newly enter the formal sector economy. Most importantly, we provide causal evidence on the exact mechanisms through which individuals learn about the...
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
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Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution : evidence from a survey experiment
Cruces, Guillermo; Perez Truglia, Ricardo; Tetaz, Martín - 2011
agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518240
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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985922
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Papa does preach : daughters and polarisation of attitudes toward abortion
Effenterre, Clémentine van - 2017
. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right …
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
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Are the upwardly-mobile more Left-wing?
Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023
Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …
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Redistribution, horizontal inequity, and reranking: direct taxation in the UK, 1977-2020
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2023
We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...
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