Racism and redistribution in the United States: A solution to the problem of American exceptionalism

By Woojin Lee, John E. Roemer. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Christina M. Fong
2. Erzo F. P. Luttmer
3. N. Harmon
4. Michal Krawczyk
5. Margaret E. Grosh
6. C. Ninno
7. E. Tesliuc
8. Karine Van der Straeten

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Erzo F. P. Luttmer
2. Michal Krawczyk
3. Margaret E. Grosh
4. C. Ninno
5. E. Tesliuc
6. Karine Van der Straeten
7. Christina M. Fong
8. A. Ouerghi

Citations in the corpus

• For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008, background): “Most analysts agree that homogeneity is supportive of safety nets and heterogeneity is harmful (Alesina and Glaeser 2004; Lee and Roemer 2004; Lindert 2004).”
• Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark (2018, background): “This is what Lee and Roemer (2006) term a ”policy bundling” effect.”
• A glimpse through the veil of ignorance: equality of opportunity and support for redistribution (2010, background): “Support forwelfare statemight also depend on several other factors, for example social cohesion (see Lee and Roemer, 2006 for a discussion of racial heterogeneity).”
• ETHNIC DIVERSITY, PUBLIC SPENDING, AND INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT FOR THE WELFARE STATE: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE (2013, background): “…may be reduced because some voters who are proredistribution but xenophobic will nonetheless choose to vote for a ‘right-wing’ policy bundle that combines free-market and anti-immigrant policies (Roemer, 1998; Roemer and Van der Straeten, 2005, 2006; Lee and Roemer, 2006; Roemer et al., 2007).”
• Immigration and Redistribution (2018, unknown): “Similar findings appear in Lee and Roemer (2006), Roemer, Lee, and Van der Straeten (2007), and Gilens (1995).”
• Do fairness and race matter in generosity? Evidence from a nationally representative charity experiment (2011, background): “…more opposed to redistribution (Luttmer, 2001), and racial attitudes seem to play an important role in attitudes to redistribution (Gilens, 1999; Lee and Roemer, 2006; Roemer et al., 2007).5 In the private sphere, charitable activity of all-white religious congregations decreases as the…”