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Farewell President! Political Favoritism, Economic Inequality, and Political Polarization

Cheng, Hui-Pei - 2020

This paper examines the effect of political favoritism on economic inequality in the short run and political polarization in the long run. We exploit the sudden death of an authoritarian leader - President Chiang Ching-Kuo of Taiwan - in 1988 to generate plausibly exogenous variation in...

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Can Information About Inequality and Social Mobility Change Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials in 11 High and Middle-Income Countries

Hoy, Christopher - 2018

participants in 11 countries that make up over 30% of the global population and produce more than 40% of world GDP. Survey …

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Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution : evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

Bellani, Luna; Fazio, Andrea; Scervini, Francesco - 2022

, but this might be the result of a decrease in trust in the institutions who are in charge of redistributive policies. …

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Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

Bellani, Luna; Fazio, Andrea; Scervini, Francesco - 2021

, but this might be the result of a decrease in trust in the institutions who are in charge of redistributive policies. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802347

Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William - 2016

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William - 2012

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Inequality configurations

Barbabela, Letícia; Pellicer, Miquel; Wegner, Eva - 2022

domains largely unrelated? We compile a dataset of 98 countries, merging income inequality data from the World Income … component correlates with life satisfaction, satisfaction with democracy, and violent protest. The political inequality … component correlates with satisfaction with democracy and peaceful protest. …

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Few Notes on Inequality in Israel : The Causes Behind Inequality

Yanovskiy, Konstantin - 2021

-like institutions (as a majority of Latin American countries and Israel with 'socially oriented' patron-client pyramids in broad use …

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Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock : How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization

Voorheis, John - 2015

Income inequality and political polarization have both increased dramatically in the United States over the last several decades. A small but growing literature has suggested that these two phenomena may be related and mutually reinforcing: income inequality leads to political polarization, and...

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Visions of Globalization : Inequality and Political Stability

Pryor, Joshua - 2013

Beginning with a literature review of globalization, economic inequality, and political stability, a series of quantitative models are presented to identify interweaving relationships. Using the knowledge gained from these models, combined with events extracted from science fiction, several...

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