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curve in many Western economies during this period, with the fall in inequality following redistribution due to …
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, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain better environmental quality …, which supports empirical research. Inequality does not appear to be harmful for the environment, and it dampens the effect … of democracy imperfections on redistribution. …
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deliberative democracy in an non-laboratory setting, using a unique dataset collected from transcripts of deliberation that … credible: its preferences approach the pivotal agent in a pure representative democracy, the median household. These effects …
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concise overview of the report in the eight areas it covers: poverty, education, employment and inequality, energy, the …
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What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more … closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To … inequality. To mitigate concerns about reverse causality, I exploit the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) as a plausibly exogenous …
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What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more … closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To … inequality. To mitigate concerns about reverse causality, I exploit the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) as a plausibly exogenous …
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present new evidence on wages and income inequality in the Chilean agricultural sector between 1935 and 1971. The paper also …
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Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of … economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
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has a positive impact on reducing inequality within groups as measured by the Gini index. Based on a sequential prisoner …
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Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …. Following the same methodology, the influence of economic growth and public education is evaluated: both are positively …
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