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Economists' Interest in Collective Decision After World War II : A History

Cherrier, Beatrice - 2016

This paper tracks economists' rising, yet elusive and unstable interest in collective decision mechanism after World War II. We replace their examination of voting procedures and social welfare functions in the 1940s and 1950s in the context of their growing involvement with policy-making....

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From Sword to Shield : The Transformation of the Corporate Income Tax, 1861 to Present

Bank, Steven A. - 2010

The U.S. corporate income tax – and in particular the double taxation of corporate income – has long been one of the most criticized and the most stubbornly persistent aspects of the federal revenue system. Unlike in most other industrialized countries, corporate income is taxed twice, first...

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How Taxation Shaped Danish History

Koerver Schmidt, Peter; Nielsen, Jacob Graff; Vogt, Helle - 2021

Taxes have existed in Denmark since at least as far back as the earliest surviving written sources. This paper concerns the role taxation has had on shaping Danish society alongside the development of Danish democracy

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A quantile approach to the relationship between body mass, wealth, and inequality

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …

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Race v. suffrage: The determinants of development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...

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Why do we need longitudinal survey data? : knowing people’s history helps in understanding their present state and where they are heading

Joshi, Heather - 2016

Information from longitudinal surveys transforms snapshots of a given moment into something with a time dimension. It illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger generations. It can track the different pathways of men...

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