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Economic Well-Being, Social Mobility and Preferences for Income Redistribution : Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
Neustadt, Ilja - 2010
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, unemployed, old-age pensioners, families with children,...
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Risk aversion and other factors determine income redistribution preferences
Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 17/18, pp. 151-156
The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study, based on a representative survey conducted in Sweden, confirms earlier results: Higher incomes are correlated with wanting less redistribution, women are more in favor of...
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Don't stop believin' : heterogeneous updating of intergenerational mobility perceptions across income groups
Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023
This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321511
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Don't stop believin' - heterogeneous updating of intergenerational mobility perceptions across income groups
Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023
This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321966
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Behind the support for redistributive politics : social preferences or beliefs?
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Cabrales, Antonio; Espinosa, … - 2024
importance of the poverty problem (need). …
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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity : evidence from the BRFSS
Volland, Benjamin - 2012 - This version 21st May 2012
Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of … of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? : cross-country and longitudinal evidence
Costa-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013
The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...
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Socioeconomic inequity in excessive weight in Indonesia
Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2016
excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and … growth of excess weight. Using the concentration index we find that prevalence of overweight and obesity affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471521
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Health care reform : separating insurance from income redistribution
Breyer, Friedrich; Haufler, Andreas - 2000 - Final version
Most systems of health care financing in EU member states currently include elements of income redistribution. The paper analyzes the effects of shifting this kind of redistribution to the tax system and argues that this reform could create two types of efficiency gains. On the expenditure side,...
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Paternalistic Goods to Improve Income Distribution : A Political Economy Approach
Levaggi, Rosella - 2012
In this article we show that when the provision of paternalistic goods is entwined with income distribution, the political decision process may prevent welfare maximization. We model the decision process from a political economy perspective by assuming that the quantity of a paternalistic good...
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