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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Castronova, Edward | | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | | 1960-1994 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-01-28T15:40:27Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-01-28T15:40:27Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2002 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18265 | | - |
| dc.description.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 | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | DIW-Diskussionspapiere 281 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | H5 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I3 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Sozialstaat | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Öffentliche Sozialausgaben | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Public Choice | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Schätzung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Industriestaaten | | en_US |
| dc.title | | To aid, insure, transfer, or control : what drives the welfare state? | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 353289760 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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