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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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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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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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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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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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Economic integration and state capacity : evidence from the Eastern enlargement of the European Union

Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018

We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...

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Efficiency consequences of affirmative action in politics : evidence from India

Das, Sabyasachi; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Saroy, Rajas - 2017

We examine how overall delivery of public goods (i.e., efficiency) is affected by affirmative action in elections, i.e., restricting candidate entry in elections to one population group. We argue that when group identities are salient, such restrictions on candidate entry need not necessarily...

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