, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a … younger and older parties, older left-wing parties are more likely to internalize the long-run costs of redistribution and to … be more credible in their commitment to redistribution, leading them to redistribute less. With entirely different data …

redistribution kept the gap in disposable income between those same households roughly constant, while also closing the gap between …

Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an … political economy of redistribution and the potential for information interventions to shift support for fiscal adjustment …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …

“the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with … outcomes (including the degree of redistribution and others). We postulate that each configuration of social outcomes emerges …

redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First … effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, we delve into the history behind one's income to isolate the effect …