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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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Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
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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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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...
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Gender differences in attitudes towards competition : evidence from the Italian scientific qualification
De Paola, Maria; Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015
We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for productivity and a number of individual and field...
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The efficacy and efforts of interest groups in post elections policy formation
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies to the case of un-enforced or enforced party...
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Are men given priority for top jobs? : investigating the glass ceiling in the Italian academia
De Paola, Maria; Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We aim to investigate if men receive preferential treatment in promotions using the Italian system for the access to associate and full professor positions that is organized in two stages: first, candidates participate in a national wide competition to obtain the National Scientific...
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The gender recontest gap in elections
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2021
This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide...
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The impact of incumbency on turnout : evidence from Italian municipalities
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2013
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...
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Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ganslmeier, Michael; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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