Peter Sandholt Jensen

TL;DR: In this article, an event history study of the adoption of the income tax in 17 countries from western Europe, north America, Oceania and Japan between 1815 and 1939 is presented, finding evidence that spending pressures, reductions in tax collection costs and to a lesser extent social learning played a significant role for the adoption decision.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise in Europe was related to the threat of revolution and find that international diffusion of regime contention and information about revolutionary events happening in neighboring countries generate the necessary variation in the perceived threat.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the consequences of the extension of the voting franchise for the size of central government and for the tax structure in ten western European countries, 1860-1938, and find that the share of direct taxes (including the personal income tax) is positively affected by the franchise extension.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the causal impact of the introduction of the heavy plow in the Middle Ages on long run development in Denmark, finding that historical counties with relatively more fertile clay soil experienced higher urbanization after its breakthrough, which was around AD 1000.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the sources of vote buying in sub-Saharan African using data from the Afrobarometer, focusing on the impact of poverty on vote buying at the individual-and country-level.