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Gahvari, Firouz Dorsch, Michael T. 2015-09-25T22:47:31Z 2015-09-25T22:47:31Z 10000-01-01 2008 2008 The third essay on poverty alleviation treats welfare transfers as a public good which eliminates the public bad of poverty. Local governments establish minimum consumption thresholds for the poor, financed by proportional income taxation. Despite the fact that income transfers are negative for a majority of voters, redistribution to the poor is present in the political equilibrium due to the public good property of poverty alleviation. Using county-level demographic and government expenditure data from the US Census, I find empirical evidence to support the comparative static predictions of the model. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:47:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3337752.pdf: 1330454 bytes, checksum: 99f9695868f4d9c5be298252d5f3b86e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 86872 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 103 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85591 (MiAaPQ)AAI3337752 eng Economics, Theory Fiscal Federalism, Social Mobility, and Poverty Alleviation: Essays in Political Economy text Economics Economics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.