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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …. Following the same methodology, the influence of economic growth and public education is evaluated: both are positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933948
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions: Theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348848
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Social mobility and economic development
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021
We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698580
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The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Germany: A machine learning approach
Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020
We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196430
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Markups for consumers
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Kann, Alexander; Tsanko, Ilona - 2020
factor to changes of inequality in society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387884
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Mechanism design for unequal societies
Groh, Carl-Christian; Reuter, Marco - 2023
We study optimal mechanisms for a utilitarian designer who seeks to assign a finite number of goods to a group of ex ante heterogeneous agents with unit demand. The agents have heterogeneous marginal utilities of money, which may naturally arise in environments where agents have different wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446290
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460699
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122566
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Favoritism by the governing elite
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023
In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446337
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Democracy and compliance in public goods games
Gallier, Carlo - 2017
contribution rule under democracy is driven by self-selection of treatments, information transmitted via the outcome of the … referendum, and democracy per se. In case treatments are endogenously chosen via a democratic decision-making process, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735628