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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...

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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?

Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015

This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...

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Are the Upwardly-Mobile More Left-Wing?

Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023

Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting … favourable attitudes to redistribution and the public sector, greater upward mobility is associated with more Left-wing attitudes …. These attitudes translate into actual reported voting behaviour. Upwards social mobility produces satisfied Left-wingers. …

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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and;Political Preferences: Evidence from the;BHPS

Clark, Andrew; D'ANGELO, EMANUELA - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2010

and upward mobility relative to own parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro …-public sector attitudes and voting. Both greater individual social status and greater mobility with respect to parents are … social status is associated with less favourable attitudes to redistribution and the public sector, greater upward mobility …

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Saving and Habit Formation: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data

Alessie, Rob; Teppa, Federica - 2002

This paper focuses on the role of habit formation in individual preferencesover consumption and saving. We closely relate to Alessie and Lusardi's(1997) model as we estimate a model which is based on their closed-formsolution, where saving is expressed as a function of lagged saving and...

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Saving and habit formation : evidence from Dutch panel data

Alessie, Rob; Teppa, Federica - 2002

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Quantifying the psychological costs of unemployment : the role of permanent income

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2007

Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In contrast to previous studies, we apply Friedman's...

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Permanent-income inequality

Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni - 2019 - This draft: February 17, 2019

We characterize the distribution of permanent-income and quantify the value of assets and human capital in lifetime wealth portfolios. We estimate the distribution of human wealth using nonparametric identification results that allow for state-dependent stochastic discounting and unobserved...

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Permanent‐income inequality

Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1023-1060

Through certainty equivalent consumption (CE) measures, we show that dispersion of current earnings, expenditures, and net worth overstate welfare inequality. This is largely due to the unaccounted value of future earnings, which we call human wealth. The latter mitigates permanent‐income...

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