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Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

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Liberté, justice et efficacité : distribution, impôts et transferts optimaux

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Revue économique 57 (2006) 1, pp. 55-84

« Social freedom » and the respect of corresponding rights, as well as Pareto efficiency (a priori required by democracy), imply that taxes and subsidies (re)distributing income are based on given « natural resources », the main of which ?'by very far?' consists of individuals?' productive...

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Abandon ship? : party brands and politicians' responses to a political scandal

Daniele, Gianmarco; Galletta, Sergio; Geys, Benny - In: Journal of public economics 184 (2020), pp. 1-13

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Learning about women's competence : the dynamic response of political parties to gender quotes in South Korea

Lee, Jay Euijung; Zanella, Martina - 2024

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Female labour force participation and child education in India : the effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

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Safety net for India's poor or waste of public funds? : poverty and welfare in the wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program

Klonner, Stefan; Oldiges, Christian - 2014

This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world …'s largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …

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Female labor force participation and child education in India : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27

We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …

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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program : Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme

Zimmermann, Laura - 2012

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...

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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India : The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Afridi, Farzana - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

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Does Political Connections and Affiliation Affect Allocation of Benefits in the Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from West Bengal, India

Das, Upasak - 2013

Decentralization at the local level in developing economies can be seen as a force of social change with the power at the hands of the citizens to influence policies according to their needs. However, the problem of political clientelism may be imminent where public resources are allocated to...

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