Unequal Societies: Income Distribution and the Social Contract

By Roland Bénabou. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Inequality Of Opportunity And Growth (2013, background): “to poor, rich parents would stop sending their less talented children to college, while, among poor parents, more talented children would be afforded the chance to go to college (see also Loury, 1981 and Bénabou, 1996). As a consequence, aggregate human capital will increase and, therefore, so will ”
Das Human Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure (2004, background): “This result is related to Benabou (2000), who demonstrates that when capital and insurance markets are imperfect, policies which redistribute wealth from richer to poorer individuals can have a positive net effect on aggregate output and growth.”
Why Was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring (2012, background): “…scientists and economists, including: Verba and Nie (1987), Rosenstone and Hansen (1993), Putnam (1995b), Verba, Schlozman, and Brady (1995), Bénabou (2000), Schlozman (2002), Dee (2004), Freeman (2004), Milligan, Moretti, and Oreopoulos (2004), Hillygus (2005), Glaeser, Ponzetto, and…”
DOES GOVERNMENT SPENDING AFFECT INCOME INEQUALITY? A META‐REGRESSION ANALYSIS (2017, neutral): “…of this argument has been found by Milanovic (2000) and Ostry et al (2014), although it has been challenged by other authors (e.g. Perotti 1996, Benabou 2000, de Mello and Tiongson 2006), who argue that governments in countries where inequality is high tend to redistribute less, because…”
Why Horizontal Inequalities Matter: Some Implications for Measurement. (2005, background): “In this spirit, Gurr has pointed to political, social, economic and demographic dimensions of relative deprivation, while Benabou has argued for the need to incorporate political rights in perspectives on inequality, although from an instrumental point of view (Benabou, 2000).”
Income Distribution and Demand-Induced Innovations (2006, neutral): “The right hand side of the resource constraint (11) increases in nP .”
Do all countries follow the same growth process? (2009, background): “…and growth being that populist policies may blunt incentives to invest in physical capital as in Alesina and Rodrik (1994) and Persson and Tabellini (1994), while also potentially subsidizing the accumulation of human capital as suggested by Bourguignon and Verdier (2000) and Benabou (2000).”
Income distribution and tax structure: Empirical test of the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis (2004, result): “The evidence of revenue substitution is consistent with the recent Norwegian study of Borge (2000) who uses a diEerent data set for the poll tax.”
Inequality, the politics of redistribution and the tax mix (2012, background): “Previous literature that draws a non-linear relationship between inequality and redistribution (Perotti 1993; Benabou 2000; Lee and Roemer 1998; Lee and Roemer 1999) does not take into account the influence that the informal sector has on the tax-mix choice and the amount of redistribution, and ho”
Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation (2005, background): “, Bowles and Gintis (1976), Edwards (1976)], noncognitive traits like motivation, persistence, time preference, and self control were neglected in empirical research and treated as “soft skills,” peripheral to educational and labor market outcomes.”
VOTING, INEQUALITY AND REDISTRIBUTION (2007, positive): “However, since not everyone votes, the decisive voter will be the voter with median income among those who vote, which may differ from the population median.9 Specifically, following Bénabou (2000), assume that political weight is a function of income, ω = φ(y).”
Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance (2006, background): “2 See Benabou (2000), Piketty (1995), Benabou and Tirole (2006), Cervellati, Esteban, and Kranich (2004), Alesina and Angeletos (2005) .”
Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence (2009, background): “…equally, growth enhancing education policies were implemented at earlier stages, positively affecting the process of development.10 The process of industrialization and the accumulation of physical capital by landowners 5See Galor and Zeira (1993), Fernandez and Rogerson (1996), and Benabou (2000).”