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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
benchmark, mutatis mutandis. In the end, full convergence is established, from a pure democracy ruled through the de jure power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461501
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The meritocratic illusion : inequality and the cognitive basis of redistribution
Blouin, Arthur; Mani, Anandi; Mukand, Sharun W.; Sgroi, … - 2024
Can inequality in rewards result in an erosion in broad-based support for meritocratic norms? We hypothesize that unequal rewards between the successful and the rest, drives a cognitive gap in their meritocratic beliefs, and hence their social preferences for redistribution. Two separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637340
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Do institutions affect social preferences? : evidence from divided Korea
Kim, Byung-Yeon; Choi, Syngjoo; Lee, Jungmin; Lee, Sokbae; … - 2013
democracy than South Korean subjects. Attitudes toward institutions are more strongly associated with the experimental behaviors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793140
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The asymmetry of population ethics : experimental social choice and dual-process moral reasoning
Spears, Dean - 2019
Population ethics is widely considered to be exceptionally important and exceptionally difficult. One key source of difficulty is the conflict between certain moral intuitions and analytical results identifying requirements for rational (in the sense of complete and transitive) social choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062726
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
paper, we take advantage of Swiss direct democracy, where people voted several times on strongly redistributive policies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886952
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Democracy and reforms
Giuliano, Paola; Mishra, Prachi; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and … countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset … 150 countries over the period 1960-2004. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003815935
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The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens' policy preferences
Zimmermann, Severin; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484466
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Satisfaction with democracy and collective action problems : the case of the environment
Halla, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality … problems ; environmental economics and policy ; satisfaction with democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741921
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Exploitation, altruism, and social welfare : an economic exploration
Doepke, Matthias - 2013
Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756103
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Distribution of wealth and interdependent preferences
Grodner, Andrew (contributor);  … - 2008
We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or negative utility from the leisure of the other (non-social) individual. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755338