in the second (voting) stage. Second, supplementary private insurance may increase the welfare of the poor, even if it is …

negatively to redistribution decisions that do not fit any fairness ideals. Our results suggest that even in the realm of moral …

We examine whether and to what extent political institutions explain different performances in income redistribution … across countries. In particular, we first review available sources of data and measures of income redistribution, discussing … explanations of redistribution from resources and instruments, as well as supply side factors. We then provide empirical evidence …

This paper explores common trends in inequality and redistribution across OECD countries from the late 1980s to 2013 …. Most countries retreated from redistribution from the mid‐1990s until the onset of the Great Recession and compensatory … redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008‐13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and …

redistribution. Estimating a DSGE model with microdata on the support for redistribution, I find that if voters disregarded their … ideological views on welfare policies, redistribution in the US would increase 117%. Because ideology is a more important … determinant of voting behavior than income, increasing voter turnout or capping campaign contributions would have a small effect …

We explore the impact of the self-serving bias on the supply and demand for redistribution. We present results from an … experiment in which participants decide on redistribution after performing a real effort task. Dependent on individual … external factors. Participants take two redistribution decisions. First, they choose a supply of redistribution in a situation …

political redistribution. Political consensus is an implicit agreement not to vote for extreme policy proposals. We show that … such an agreement may play an efficiency-enhancing role. Voters anticipate that voting for extremist parties increases … democracy and how the limits to redistribution vary with initial inequality. We find that more inequality need not lead to more …