Growing Public: OVERVIEW

By Peter H. Lindert. 2004

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Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World (2011, background): “Some have claimed evidence of redistribution under democracy conditional on turnout (for example, Lindert 2004, 1996; Kenworthy and Pontusson 2005) while others identify political stability (Muller 1988) or other conditioning factors.”
Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance (2012, unknown): “Lindert (2004) argues that military expenditures dominated state budgets through the start of the twentieth century, and that there was little spending on social programs of any kind.”
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…”
The taxman tools up: An event history study of the introduction of the personal income tax (2009, background): “A variety of economic and political explanations has been advanced to explain this pattern, but without reaching rm conclusions (see, e.g., Lindert, 2004a,b).”
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).”
The times they are not changin': Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870-2000 (2007, background): “Enrolment from Lindert (2004) and Mitchell (1980).”
Taxation and the worlds of welfare (2009, background): “Lindert (2004) argues that consumption taxes are more economically sustainable because they do not penalize work effort as income taxes do, and therefore do not interfere with economic growth.”
Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence (2018, 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).6 It bears…”