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Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged

Poutvaara, Panu - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2002

, the middle-aged owning land may gain by providing public education even when they cannot tax the young and when the young … face no credit market constraints. This requires that labor is not mobile. Furthermore, establishing public education may … benefit only the generation which pays for education twice, first for itself and then for the next generation. …

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To draft or not to draft? : Efficiency, generational incidence, and political economy of military conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2005

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To Draft or not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2005

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs

Fong, Christina; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

Forty-two percent of Americans give different answers when asked, respectively, about the reasons for being rich and the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our...

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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs

Fong, Christina M.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

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Redistributive Politics with Target-Specific Beliefs

Fong, Christina M. - 2019

Forty-two percent of Americans give different answers when asked, respectively, about the reasons for being rich and the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theory about support for redistribution in the presence of target-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889829

To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2021

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Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules

Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard; Lau, Morten I.; Poutvaara, Panu - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 3, pp. 325-325

This paper studies human-capital formation, labor-supply, and retirement decisions associated with four alternative regimes of social security. We implement a theoretical model with overlapping generations of households and two different ability types within each generation. We find that with a...

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