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Distributive Politics and Economic Growth

Alesina, Alberto F.; Rodrik, Dani - 2010

relationship between the political influence of the two groups and the level of taxation, public investment, redistribution of …

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How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2013

redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U …

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Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Theory and Evidence

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - 2021

Is inequality harmful for growth? We suggest that it is. To summarize our main argument: in a society where distributional conflict is more important, political decisions are more likely to produce economic policies that allow private individuals to appropriate less of the returns to growth...

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Affirmative Action as Earnings Redistribution : the Targeting of Compliance Reviews

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2010

enforcement. Optimal enforcement strategies are developed for both the anti-discrimination and the earnings redistribution models … redistribution model …

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Do Taxes Increase Economic Inequality? A Comparative Study Based on the State Personal Income Tax

Troiano, Ugo - 2018

I present new quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between tax policies and the distribution of income. I focus on the twentieth century United States, and on the personal income tax, since its inception. I study three major policy events that, as the existing literature shows,...

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Effective Policy for Reducing Inequality? The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Distribution of Income

Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2015

In this paper, we examine the effect of the EITC on the employment and income of single mothers with children. We provide the first comprehensive estimates of this central safety net policy on the full distribution of after-tax and transfer income. We use a quasi-experiment approach, using...

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Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017

affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than … redistribution, mostly for "equality of opportunity" policies. We find a strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are … more pessimistic about mobility, their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions, and …

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Inequality and Trade

Mitra, Devashish; Trindade, Vitor - 2022

We incorporate demand-side considerations in trade in a systematic but straightforward way. We do so by focusing on the role of inequality in the determination of trade flows and patterns. With nonhomothetic preferences, when countries are similar in all respects but asset inequality, we find...

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Monetary Policy and Redistribution in Open Economies

Guo, Xing; Ottonello, Pablo; Perez, Diego - 2022

We study how monetary policy affects the asymmetric effects of globalization. To this end, we build an open-economy heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model (HANK), in which households differ in their income, wealth, and real and financial integration with international markets. We use the model...

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William - 2012

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …

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