Does democracy reduce income inequality?
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Political freedom; Income inequality; Panel data; GMM estimation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
- H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
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