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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fiscal Federalism, Social Mobility, and Poverty Alleviation: Essays in Political Economy
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe third essay on poverty alleviation treats welfare transfers as a public good which eliminates the public bad of poverty. Local governments establish minimum consumption thresholds for the poor, financed by proportional income taxation. Despite the fact that income transfers are negative for a majority of voters, redistribution to the poor is present in the political equilibrium due to the public good property of poverty alleviation. Using county-level demographic and government expenditure data from the US Census, I find empirical evidence to support the comparative static predictions of the model.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Economics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Dorsch, Michael T.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Gahvari, Firouz
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3337752
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85591