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Who Supports Redistribution? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 Using an original dataset, we investigated the determinants of individual preferences over income redistribution in Japan. Although income level is negatively correlated with support for redistribution, it does not explain much; there are other important
Fumio Ohtake, Jun Tomioka
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Preferences for Redistribution [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical
Alesina, Alberto, Giuliano, Paola
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Diversity and Redistribution [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2005 This paper examines how preference heterogeneity affects the ability of the poor to extract resources from the rich. We study the equilibrium of a game in which coalitions of individuals form parties, parties propose platforms, and all individuals vote ...
Gilat Levy, Raquel Fernández
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Redistribution of wintering American Common Eiders ( Somateria mollisima dresseri )
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2023 The American Common Eider ( Somateria mollisima dresseri ) winters along the eastern coasts of the northern U.S. and southern Canada. Various lines of evidence indicate recent localized changes in eider abundance, particularly in the Gulf of Maine, where
Sarah E Gutowsky +4 more
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Deceptive redistribution [PDF]
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016 Many policies enhance welfare under certain conditions, but have the potential to generate private rents at other times. This can prompt rent-seeking governments to adopt such policies excessively. If the economy's constituents can easily detect opportunistic policymaking, rent-seeking is constrained by the prospect of loosing political reputation and ...
Guillermo L. Ordoñez, Simeon D. Alder
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Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics [PDF]
Public Choice, 2009 This paper examines the effect of inefficient redistribution in Myerson’s (American Political Science Review 87:856–869, 1993) model of redistributive politics. Regardless of the absolute levels of the efficiency of political parties’ transfers to different voter segments, parties have incentive to (stochastically) shift resources away from voter ...
Kovenock, Dan, Roberson, Brian
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Redistribution Through Markets [PDF]
Econometrica, 2018 Policymakers frequently use price regulations as a response to inequality in the markets they control. In this paper, we examine the optimal structure of such policies from the perspective of mechanism design. We study a buyer‐seller market in which agents have private information about both their valuations for an indivisible object and their marginal
Dworczak, Piotr +2 more
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Microorganisms, 2020 Members of the bacterial genus Thalassotalea have been isolated recently from various marine environments, including marine invertebrates. A metagenomic study of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume has identified genes involved in aromatic hydrocarbon ...
Minji Kim +4 more
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Redistribution and the alleviation of income inequalities: the case of the European Union
Ekonomia i Prawo, 2020 Motivation: The income inequalities are considered an important economic and social problem, because increasing income inequalities may make it difficult to achieve such policy goals as: social cohesion and inclusive development.
Małgorzata Szczepaniak
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Linguistic diversity and redistribution [PDF]
, 2009 This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad cross-section of countries. We use the notion of "linguistic distances" and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances ...
Desmet, Klaus +2 more
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