Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference

By A. Alesina, Edward L. Glaeser. 2004

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

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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution (2010, neutral): “On the other hand, Alesina and Glaeser (2004), Perotti (1996), and Rodriguez (1999) fail to find supporting evidence for this model.”
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes (2008, background): “From their study of ethnic fractionalization Alesina & Glaeser (2004) infer that eventually increased ethnic heterogeneity will lower the Europeans’ passion for welfare policy (for similar argument see also Freeman, 1986; Glazer, 1998; Goodhart, 2004).”
Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why so Different? (2005, positive): “…the U.S. and Europe also reflects political differences between the U.S. and Europe that have made Europe far friendlier to unions than the U.S. Alesina and Glaeser (2004) argue that because of American racial fractionalization and European political instability (which is ultimately the result…”
Inequality of opportunity in the land of opportunities, 1968–2001 (2009, background): “Another interesting contribution provided by Bourguignon et al. [8] turns to the Brazilian case and decomposes the share of total observable inequality 1Alesina and La Ferrara [2] present a study on individual preferences for redistribution in the U.S. Alesina and Glaeser [1] review deeply the idea ”
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance (2005, positive): “Trade flows are generally hampered by country borders even when the trade regime is free and without explicit policy-induced barriers.(11) With severe trade restrictions, the size of a country would be very important for productivity; on the other hand with free trade countries can be small, enjoy t”
Migration and welfare state solidarity in Western Europe (2009, positive): “A number of authors, most prominently Alesina and Glaeser (2004) in their book Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe, expect that solidarity within the welfare state will be weakened as a result of increasing ethnic heterogeneity (see also: Sanderson, 2004; Soroka et al., 2006).”
The Scandinavian model—An interpretation (2014, background): “Our paper is part of a literature on comparing welfare states (Esping-Andersen, 1990; Rodrik, 1998), on the differences between Europe and the US (Alesina and Glaeser, 2004; Alesina and Angeletos, 2005), on countries with different wage setting institutions (Calmfors, 1990; Moene et al., 1993), and…”
The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution (2011, background): “…inequality and redistribution among Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is in fact the opposite of what the canonical model seems to predict: Governments in less egalitarian countries tend to engage in less redistribution (e.g., Alesina and Glaeser 2004, 57–60).”
Growing up in a Recession (2014, neutral): “The coefficient of race on preferences for redistribution has always had the largest effect in the literature (see, for example, Alesina and Glaeser, 2004; Alesina and Giuliano, 2011; and Luttmer, 2001). at U niversity of C alifornia, L os A ngeles on M ay 7, 2014 http://restud.oxfordjournals.org/…”
The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages (2012, result): “These results are in line with those of Alesina, Glaeser and Sacerdote (2001), as well as Alesina and Glaeser (2004), arguing that the U.S. redistributes less than Europe in part because of its greater degree of ethnic heterogeneity.13 At the cross-country level, results are more mixed.”
Openness, Government Size and the Terms of Trade (2009, methodology): “For the interested reader, we refer to the important contributions of Persson and Tabellini (1999 and 2003) and Alesina and Glaeser (2004).”