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Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America : What Drives What?
Calderón, César A. - 2011
-seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, a country where both rent-seeking behavior and political shifts have varied widely in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126266
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Discrimination in Latin America : an economic perspective
Ñopo, Hugo (ed.); Chong, Alberto (contributor);  … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008650168
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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution
Chong, Alberto (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the joint effect of economic and political inequalities on redistributive taxation and institutional quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776340
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Education and democratic preferences
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2009
This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278288
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Rent seeking and democracy in Latin America : what drives what?
Calderón, César A. (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003327790
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Do democracies breed rent-seeking behavior?
Calderón, César A.; Chong, Alberto - In: Journal of policy reform 9 (2006) 4, pp. 247-260
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003469845
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Rent seeking and democracy : empirical evidence for Uruguay
Calderón, César A.; Chong, Alberto - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 45 (2007) 3, pp. 592-601
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003505727
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On education and democratic preferences
Chong, Alberto; Grâdšṭayn, Marq - In: Economics & politics 27 (2015) 3, pp. 362-388
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399507
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Education and democratic preferences
Chong, Alberto; Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 2009
This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals … are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter … results hold across countries with different levels of democracy, thus rejecting the hypothesis that indoctrination through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844614
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Inequality, democracy, and persistence : is there a political Kurznets curve?
Chong, Alberto - In: Economics & politics 16 (2004) 2, pp. 189-212
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002122693