the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our theory predicts that target-specific beliefs about the poor matter most … welfare recipients supports our theory. We also find, in theory, the ex-istence of a moral release equilibrium in which the …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …

phenomenon across the globe. Upward-biased perceptions are associated with lower preferences for redistribution and have direct … redistribution preferences, is independent of socio-demographic characteristics, robust to measurement errors in social surveys, and …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …

This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income … natives. It is found that at best, natives are indifferent towards immigrant voting, and the outcome of a corresponding …

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies …. We identify a political principal-agent problem based on ego-rents from political office. Our theory predicts voter …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government …

parties are not motivated by reciprocity. We show that reciprocity may have dramatic consequences for models of voting …

economy ; political equilibrium ; voting ; redistribution ; education subsidies ; local equilibrium ; non-median voter …We study voting over education subsidies where poor individuals may be excluded and the rich may chose private … respect to the possibilities of political change seem general for problems of redistribution with excludability. -- political …