the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …

We examine empirically the relationship between the extent of redistribution and the components of the Mirrlees … relationship between factor-income inequality and the extent of redistribution. We also find a link between our redistributive …-preference measure and the extent of redistribution. …

, 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 …

This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British … intervention for income redistribution. The effect is robust to several specifications, samples, longitudinal models and … effect indicates that the homo oeconomicus effect does not exert an impact on attitudes to redistribution for the less …