We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is … substantially smaller when redistribution is chosen in a vote than when it is imposed. Redistribution seems to be more legitimate …

I show that a stylized fact on the decades-long stability in preferences for income redistribution – which has … substantial support for taxation and redistribution among conservatives. This treatment closes upwards of half the gap in …

The authors set up a political economy equilibrium framework for personal income distribution. Located in status theory …

preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …

preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …

the national government to address inequality through redistribution by providing them with information about inequality … preferences for redistribution are only elastic to information in some countries and in the United States both types of … information lowered support for redistribution. Secondly, in middle income countries, information about people's position in the …

This paper introduces a new survey item to measure preferences for income redistribution. Respondents construct their … income quintile update automatically to keep government revenues fixed and take into account the costs of redistribution …

I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … attitudes in a joint empirical framework. Using migration data at the NUTS regional level from the European Labor Force Survey … welfare and put restrictions on migration. When migrants are mostly low-skilled (high-skilled), European citizens typically …

redistribution. Lack of portability regarding this type of cover may impede international mobility and create financial losses or …