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The Political U : New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Campos, Nauro F.; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...

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A Theory of Political Entrenchment

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012

We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution … the net gain that low-skill agents obtain from income redistribution, which only the Left (but not the Right) can credibly … theory for constitutionally legislated term limits is also discussed. The theory sheds light on why left-wing parties or …

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …

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Voting as a War of Attrition

Kwiek, Maksymilian - 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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Identity, Perceptions and Institutions : Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India

Goel, Deepti - 2016

Using data from two rounds of the Employment-Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey for 2004-5 and 2009-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self-worth as measured by the amounts that individuals consider...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp - 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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Learning to Participate in Politics : Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2017

This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using region-by-cohort variation in exposure to the Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We...

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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Marx, Paul - 2019

: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks if populist anti-elite rhetoric has a causal influence on anger … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …

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Terrorism and Employment : Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Brodeur, Abel - 2015

This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...

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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011

redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

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