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Contested Compromise: Public Policy Reforms as Share Contests

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public policy reforms often benefit certain societal groups while being costly for others. Both supporters and opponents of reforms can form lobby groups to influence the policy outcome in their preferred direction. This paper presents a simple two‐stage model of a public policy reform that results from the partial implementation of a policy ...
Achim Hagen
wiley   +1 more source

Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
wiley   +1 more source

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Can't I Figure This Out? Identity Negotiation and Higher Education Decision Making Among Women With Caring Responsibilities

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women with unpaid caring responsibilities frequently wrestle with challenges when making decisions about higher education study, asking “Why can't I figure this out?” Statistics have persistently demonstrated that women undertake the majority of unpaid care work, however, unpaid carers are an underrepresented cohort in research, in higher ...
Deborah Munro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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