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Government expenditure in the DINA framework: Allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022

the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the …, we find that public education spending goes disproportionately to the bottom half of the income distribution. A lump …-sum allocation provides a good approximation. Moving beyond the cross-section, we find that public education expenditure is …

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Long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864 - 1870): From male scarcity to intimate partner violence

Boggiano, Barbara - 2020

This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864-1870) on intimate partner violence. The identification of these causal effects relies on a novel historical dataset from which I exploit the distance from municipalities to military camps during the war. Over 130 years...

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Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics in Poland: Family Background and Children's Educational Attainment During Transition

Lauer, Charlotte; Beblo, Miriam - 2002

education is investigated using an ordered probit model of educational attainment with data from the Polish Labour Force Survey …. The results show that children´s education is strongly related to household structure, parents´ education, city size, and … on children´s education. We conclude that, if poverty transmission takes place between generations, this seems to be …

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The impact of communist party membership on wealth distribution and accumulation in urban China

Targa, Matteo; Yang, Li - 2023

This paper provides the first in-depth investigation into the evolution of the wealth gap between CCP and non-CCP households in urban China from 1995 to 2017. We apply unconditional quantile regression (UQR) to analyze the variations in the premiums of party membership across the wealth...

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Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics in Poland: Family Background and Children's Educational Attainment During Transition

Lauer, Charlotte; Beblo, Miriam - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

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Public Universities, Tuition and Competition: A Tiebout Model

Schwager, Robert - 2007

A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students …. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile … student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues, of running the university. The quality of education and the …

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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...

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The effect of unemployment insurance benefits on (self-)employment: Two sides of the same coin?

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Hansch, Michelle - 2020

Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment insurance (UI) generosity for self-employment. By using...

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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Mandated sick pay: Coverage, utilization, and welfare effects

Maclean, Catherine; Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...

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