Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-level Analysis, 1997–2012

2017 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Jorgenson ◽  
Juliet Schor ◽  
Xiaorui Huang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Level Analysis

Trust in Government and the American Public’s Responsiveness to Rising Inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 790-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Combine Data ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
The Relationship

The United States has become increasingly unequal. Income inequality has risen dramatically since the 1970s, yet public opinion toward redistribution has remained largely unchanged. This is puzzling, given Americans’ professed concern regarding, and knowledge of, rising inequality. I argue that trust in government can help to reconcile this. I combine data on state-level income inequality with survey data from the Cumulative American National Election Studies (CANES) from 1984 to 2016. I find that trust in government conditions the relationship between inequality and redistribution, with higher inequality prompting demand for government redistribution, but only among politically trustful individuals. This holds among conservatives and non-conservatives and among the affluent and non-affluent. These findings underscore the relevance of political trust in shaping attitudes toward inequality and economic redistribution and contribute to our understanding of why American public opinion has not turned in favor of redistribution during an era of rising income inequality.

1805 STATE-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEMPORARY UTILIZATION OF RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY IN THE UNITED STATES

2012 ◽  
Vol 187 (4S) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurdarshan S. Sandhu ◽  
Lucas R. Wiegand ◽  
Seth A. Strope ◽  
Adam S. Kibel ◽  
Pamela L. Owens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Radical Prostatectomy ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Level Analysis

Big Five Personality Factors and Suicide Rates in the United States: A State-Level Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Voracek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Big Five ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
Cross National

Partly replicating findings from several cross-national studies (of Lester and of Voracek) on possible aggregate-level associations between personality and suicide prevalence, state-level analysis within the United States yielded significantly negative associations between the Big Five factor of Neuroticism and suicide rates. This effect was observed for historical as well as contemporary suicide rates of the total or the elderly population and was preserved with controls for the four other Big Five factors and measures of state wealth. Also conforming to cross-national findings, the Big Five factors of Agreeableness and Extraversion were negatively, albeit not reliably, associated with suicide rates.

Income inequality and the growth of redistributive spending in the United States (US) states: is there a link?

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tima T. Moldogaziev ◽  
James E. Monogan ◽  
Christopher Witko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Us States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Policy Models

AbstractProminent public policy models have hypothesised that rising income inequality will lead to more redistributive spending. Subsequent theoretical advancements and empirical research often failed to find a positive relationship between inequality and redistributive spending, however. Over the last few decades both income inequality and redistributive spending have been growing in the United States states. In this work, we consider whether temporal variation in inequality can explain variation in redistributive spending, while controlling for a number of factors that covary with redistributive spending in the states. In an analysis of data for 1976–2008, we find that higher levels of inequality are associated with greater redistributive spending, offering empirical evidence that fiscal policy at the state level responds to growing levels of income inequality. Considering the growing role of state governments in welfare provision during the past several decades, this finding is relevant for policy researchers and practitioners at all levels of government.

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