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Sex and Fiscal Desire

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  • Montgomery, Robert
  • Stuart, Charles

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Women may want greater taxes and redistributional spending than men if malein comes exceed female incomes and men and women are not always married. Cross-section evidence from opinion polls provides indirect support for this view.Women express greater favorability toward redistributional spending than do men; the difference is explained largely but not entirely by income differences. The empirical analysis provides partialsupport for Meltzer and Richard (1981) , and suggests that increases in singleness after World WarII may have acted to increase differences by sex in desired redistributional spending.

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  • Montgomery, Robert & Stuart, Charles, 1999. "Sex and Fiscal Desire," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series qt6nf9t426, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:ucsbec:qt6nf9t426
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    1. José Javier Bercoff & Osvaldo Meloni, 2023. "Looking inside the ballot box: gender gaps in Argentine presidential elections," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 70(2), pages 237-255, June.
    2. Alberto F. Alesina & Paola Giuliano, 2009. "Preferences for Redistribution," NBER Working Papers 14825, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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