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Why populist democracy promotes market liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - 2008

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases …, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …

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Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes

Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - 2005

We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...

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Health and income: a robust comparison of Canada and the US

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - 2009

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...

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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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Financial Literacy and Political Orientation in Great Britain

Montagnoli, Alberto; Moro, Mirko; Panos, Georgios A.; … - 2016

This study examines the relationship between financial literacy and political orientation in Great Britain. Using novel data from the British Election Survey in 2014, we employ two distinct measures of political orientation, capturing individual self-assessment on a left-right axis and party...

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

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 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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Collective Negative Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany

Bellani, Luna; Fazio, Andrea; Scervini, Francesco - 2021

, but this might be the result of a decrease in trust in the institutions who are in charge of redistributive policies. …

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Income Misperception and Populism

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022

We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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Give and You Shall Receive: The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - 2015

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...

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