redistribution. The rich compare less and are more happy than average when they do, which latter is consistent with relative income … theory. With respect to the direction of comparisons, colleagues are the most frequently-cited reference group. Those who …

redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to impact individual preferences in the literature, we take the … egoistic motives for redistribution seriously and focus on the role played by the occupational status of individuals in shaping … be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. Finally, (iii) we highlight differences between European …

lifetime welfare, has the undesirable corollary to recommend a redistribution of resources from short-lived to long …

citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy …

redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to impact individual preferences in the literature, we take the … egoistic motives for redistribution seriously and focus on the role played by the occupational status of individuals in shaping … be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. Finally, (iii) we highlight differences between European …

. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i …) individuals living in states with mineral resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …