@techreport{Castronova2002insure,
abstract = {The paper uses panel data on OECD countries to assess four theories about the forces that generate social spending. The four theories are: Aid: the Welfare State is about helping the poor. Insure: the Welfare State insures the consumption of middle-class voters. Transfer: the Welfare State transfers money to politically-powerful entitled groups. Control: the Welfare State is about controlling the behavior of the underclass. The data give the following grades: Aid D-, Insure C+, Transfer A-, Control D. This assessment is made by regressing the share of social spending in GDP on a vector of country characteristics. The methods involve simultaneous equation fixed-effects models, and they take advantage of some recent innovations in the growth literature involving the treatment of country-level panel data},
address = {Berlin},
author = {Edward Castronova},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {H5; I3; 330; Sozialstaat; \"{O}ffentliche Sozialausgaben; Public Choice; Sch\"{a}tzung; Industriestaaten},
language = {eng},
number = {281},
publisher = {Deutsches Institut f\"{u}r Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)},
title = {To aid, insure, transfer, or control : what drives the welfare state?},
type = {DIW-Diskussionspapiere},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18265},
year = {2002}
}
