Growing public – social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century

By R. Pond. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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The Political Economy of Ownership: Housing Markets and the Welfare State (2014, background): “For example, a core puzzle in comparative political economy is the so-called Robin Hood paradox (Lindert 2004) - redistribution from the poor to the rich happens least when it is most needed, for example when inequality is high.”
Barriers to entry: insider/outsider politics and the political determinants of job security regulations (2009, background): “Here, job security regulations are often treated as one of the most important impediments to job creation (OECD, 1994; Siebert, 1997; Blanchard and Wolfers, 2000; Garibaldi and Mauro, 2002; IMF, 2003; Lindert, 2004; Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2005).”
Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance (2012, neutral): “Lindert (2004) argues that there are important similarities between the historical evolution of tax systems and current differences in tax regimes between rich and poor countries.”
Colonial taxation and government spending in British Africa, 1880–1940: Maximizing revenue or minimizing effort? (2011, background): “State intervention in schooling and health care have guaranteed higher rates of human capital accumulation than private markets normally provide (Lindert, 2004: p. 230).”
Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation (2008, background): “A final stylized fact is that there is no trade-off between relatively egalitarian and redistributive welfare states and investment (Swank, 1992), economic growth (Lindert, 2004), or international competitiveness (Garrett, 1998).”
Nation-building Through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration (2019, background): “According to Lindert (2004), 12% of all pupils were enrolled in such schools in 1880.9 Migrant speci…c shares are not available but were presumably higher given that the language of instruction in these schools was not necessarily English (and the …gure aligns closely with the overall share of…”
Tax Effort in Developing Countries and High Income Countries: The Impact of Corruption, Voice and Accountability (2008, background): “…(mean) Alesina et al. (2003) Table A2: High Income Countries AUSTRALIA KUWAIT AUSTRIA LUXEMBOURG BELGIUM NETHERLANDS CANADA NORWAY CZECH REPUBLIC PORTUGAL DENMARK SLOVENIA ESTONIA SOUTH KOREA FINLAND SPAIN FRANCE SWEDEN GERMANY SWITZERLAND GREECE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ICELAND UNITED KINGDOM ITALY”
Tax structure, size of government, and the extension of the voting franchise in Western Europe, 1860–1938 (2009, background): “The growth in the size of government that has characterized all industrialized countries in Europe, the USA and elsewhere over the past 150 years is a well-known fact documented by, e.g., Tanzi and Schuknecht (2000) and Lindert (2004a).”
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth (2014, background): “With respect to spending, Lindert (2004) sees something of a “free lunch” paradox in that some categories of public spending that are redistributive have no apparent adverse impact on growth (for example, spending on health and education, or tax-financed infrastructure spending).”
Declining inequality in Latin America: Some economics, some politics * (2011, neutral): “Acemoglu and Robinson (2010) notes that in the mature Western economies, the expansion of education in the 19th century followed democratization and its consolidation (Lindert and Williamson, 2001 and Lindert, 2004, make that case for the United States).”
For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008, background): “The highest-spending countries have chosen a relatively efficient pattern of taxa- • tion, more so than some of the lower spenders (Lindert 2004).”
Taxation and the worlds of welfare (2009, background): “The study of how the state distributes benefits to citizens boasts a sophisticated and varied research tradition, but the study of how the state generates the revenue for its redistributive and other functions is much less welldeveloped (but see the contributions to Martin et al., 2009). Recently, s”
Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and National Assessment (2009, background): “In countries such as India and Pakistan, for example, which have historically underinvested in primary education relative to secondary and higher education (and to their country’s GDP), these move- Comparative Education Review 19 ments can be very threatening (Lindert 2004, 46ff.).”