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In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be considered an effective and cost-viable alternative to interventions based on harsher punishment alone. In particular we study the effect of subsidizing high school completion....
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This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that redistributed public education finance across Brazilian...
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, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a … younger and older parties, older left-wing parties are more likely to internalize the long-run costs of redistribution and to … be more credible in their commitment to redistribution, leading them to redistribute less. With entirely different data …
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carbon emission reduction than redistribution (inequality reduction by transfers). However, those countries who contribute …-distribution decreases or does not affect the carbon emissions of the biggest global polluters. Redistribution, on the other hand, exhibits …
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