Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?

By A. Alesina, Edward L. Glaeser, Bruce I. Sacerdote. 2001

325 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Kenneth F. Scheve
2. Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin
3. Woojin Lee
4. J. Lind
5. John E. Roemer
6. Klaus Desmet
7. P. Böckerman
8. D. Stasavage

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Michael L. Ross
2. Kenneth F. Scheve
3. Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin
4. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
5. Woojin Lee
6. Shlomo Weber
7. J. Lind
8. John E. Roemer

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Kenneth F. Scheve
2. Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin
3. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
4. Shlomo Weber
5. J. Lind
6. Klaus Desmet
7. P. Böckerman
8. Michael L. Ross

Citations in the corpus

• Fractionalization and the Size of Government (2007, background): “3Alesina and his co-workers have documented that fractionalization tends to reduce the supply of public goods, redistribution, and participation in US communities (Alesina, Baqir, and Easterly 1999, Alesina, Glaeser, and Sacerdote 2001, Alesina and La Ferrara 2001).”
• Is Democracy Good for the Poor (2006, background): “While there is a well-developed literature on the politics of income, welfare, and redistribution in advanced industrialized democracies, poverty levels in these countries are trivial (Alesina, Glaeser, and Sacerdote 2001; Iverson and Soskice 2006).”
• Public Opinion and Affordable Housing: A Review of the Literature (2010, unknown): “For Americans, the core values and beliefs typically discussed in the political behavior literature are freedom—or lib-erty—and equality (Alesina, Glaeser, and Sacerdote 2001; Bobo 1991; Hurwitz and Peffley 1992; O’Connor 2000).”
• AMBITION AND JEALOUSY. INCOME INTERACTIONS IN THE "OLD" EUROPE VERSUS THE "NEW" EUROPE AND (2005, unknown): “This paper is one of a series that investigate the subjective perception of income distribution (e.g. Piketty, 1995, Benabou and Ok, 2001, Alesina et al., 2001, 2004, 2005, Corneo and Gruner, 2000, Ravallion and Lokshin, 2001, Fong, 2001, 2004; see Senik (2005a) for a survey).”
• Racism and redistribution in the United States: A solution to the problem of American exceptionalism (2006, background): “Our analysis also provides a different perspective on the importance of the race issue in American politics than that of Alesina et al. (2001).”
• The cost of racial animus on a black candidate: Evidence using Google search data☆ (2014, background): “In addition, the new proxy of area-level prejudice might be useful to literatures in social economics (Alesina et al., 2001; Alesina and La Ferrara, 2002), labor economics (Charles and Guryan, 2008), and urban economics (Cutler et al., 1999; Card et al., 2008).”
• LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND REDISTRIBUTION (2009, background): “See, for example, Alesina et al. (2003).”
• Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction (2007, unknown): “Like Corneo and Grüner (2001), Alesina et al. (2001a) also used cross-national survey data and found that preferences for a more equal income distribution are stronger in Western Europe than they are in the United States.”
• Pension Reforms and the Opinions of European Citizens (2002, unknown): “Alberto Alesina et al. (2001) touch on related issues”
• Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance (2006, background): “Alesina, Glaeser, and Sacerdote (2001) and Alesina and Angeletos (2005) rely on an estimate of a positive and significant correlation between the Luck Important measure in the World Values Survey and a respondent’s left–right ideology, controlling for other factors, to present evidence of a…”