Similar Search Results

Barth, Erling - 2010

citizens and why countries cluster around different worlds of welfare capitalism---the Scandinavian model, the Anglo …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152499

How the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and Reforms

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2017

Older Americans have experienced dramatic gains in life expectancy in recent decades, but an emerging literature reveals that these gains are accumulating mostly to those at the top of the income distribution. We explore how growing inequality in life expectancy affects lifetime benefits from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958580

Preferences for Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757663

Scaling the Digital Divide : Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement

Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2014

Does differential access to computer technology at home compound the educational disparities between rich and poor? Would a program of government provision of computers to early secondary school students reduce these disparities? We use administrative data on North Carolina public school...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069740

Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity : Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending

Johnson, Rucker - 2017

We explore whether early childhood human-capital investments are complementary to those made later in life. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy-induced changes in pre-school (Head Start) spending and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954460

Non-Production Benefits of Education : Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

Lochner, Lance - 2011

A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130984

Education as Liberation?

Friedman, Willa - 2011

Scholars have long speculated about education's political impacts, variously arguing that it promotes modern or pro-democratic attitudes; that it instills acceptance of existing authority; and that it empowers the disadvantaged to challenge authority. To avoid endogeneity bias, if schooling...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127419

Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … to be realized when democracy is captured by the richer segments of the population; when it caters to the preferences of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071520

Trends in U.S. Spatial Inequality : Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty

Gaubert, Cecile; Kline, Patrick; Vergara, Damian; … - 2022

We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey data sources. Both states and counties have diverged in terms of per-capita pre-tax incomes since the late 1990s, with transfers serving to dampen this divergence. County...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089530

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039764

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last