This paper improves the empirical investigation on the effectiveness of the median voter theorem. Using high quality data, it is possible to directly observe individual net cash transfers in several countries and to investigate the effects of taxes and transfers on different social classes and...

This paper describes a new dataset, in which measures of educational level and inequality were collected for 48 countries over 13 5-year birth cohorts. Drawing on four representative international surveys (<Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">ess, <Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">eu-silc, <Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">ials and <Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">issp), we collected measures of individual educational attainment...</emphasis></emphasis></emphasis></emphasis>

The paper focuses on the expansion of participation to education and on its drivers separately for each level (lower secondary, upper secondary, tertiary). In doing this, we build a bridge between economic research, who typically focuses on years of education, and sociological research, who...

There are two main dimensions of inequality in Italy. On one side, there is geography. The sharp division between a more developed North and a backwards South has been a central feature of the country since the birth of the Italian national state, and is still, a central topic of Italian...

This paper analyses the relationship between schooling expansion and educational inequality in a panel of developed countries over different birth cohorts. Compared to previous literature, we expand the comprehension of this relationship by exploiting the longitudinal dimension of our data and...

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As an answer to soaring oil prices, stabilization mechanisms based on specific taxes, such as the French Tipp flottante, have been discussed and introduced in some countries in early 2000s, but then soon abandoned. Our contribution aims at analysing the excise pass-through and the cost shifting...

This paper examines the impact of social heterogeneity on in-kind redistribution. We contribute to the previous literature in two ways: we consider i) the provision of several public goods and ii) agents different not only in income, but also in their preferences over the various goods provided...