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dc.contributor.authorMATTOZZI, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorSNOWBERG, Erik
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-06T13:55:46Z
dc.date.available2018-12-06T13:55:46Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationJournal of public economics, 2018, Vol. 159, pp. 54-65
dc.identifier.issn0047-2727
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/59992
dc.descriptionAvailable online: 22 February 2018en
dc.description.abstractWe develop a theory of taxation and the distribution of government spending in a citizen-candidate model of legislatures. Individuals are heterogeneous in two dimensions: productive ability in the private sector and negotiating ability in politics. When these are positively correlated, rich voters always prefer a rich legislator, but poor voters face a trade-off. A rich legislator will secure more pork for the district, but will also prefer lower taxation than the poor voter. Our theory organizes a number of stylized facts across countries about taxation and redistribution, parties, and class representation in legislatures. We demonstrate that spending does not necessarily increase when the number of legislators increases, as the standard common-pool intuition suggests, and that many policies aimed at increasing descriptive representation may have the opposite effect.
dc.description.sponsorshipNSF [SES-1156154]
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of public economics
dc.subjectCitizen candidates
dc.subjectTaxation
dc.subjectRedistribution
dc.subjectRepresentation
dc.subjectLegislatures
dc.subjectPolitical economyen
dc.subjectDistributive politicsen
dc.subjectGender differencesen
dc.subjectParty competitionen
dc.subjectModelen
dc.subjectGovernmenten
dc.subjectPorken
dc.subjectRedistributionen
dc.subjectAccountabilityen
dc.subjectElectionsen
dc.titleThe right type of legislator : a theory of taxation and representation
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.01.009
dc.identifier.volume159
dc.identifier.startpage54
dc.identifier.endpage65
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