I study to what extent voters are forward looking and how future income affects the voting decision. Particularly, I … income, transitory income has no explanatory power on voting behaviour, supporting the hypothesis of forward looking voting …. As expected, a high expected permanent income leads to Conservative voting and a low income to Socialist voting. …

redistribution experiment, and find that it predicts voting outcomes far better than the standard model of voting assuming …We use a model of self-centered inequality aversion suggested by Fehr and Schmidt (1999) to study voting on … redistribution. We theoretically identify two classes of conditions when an empirically plausible amount of fairness preferences …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … in line with our theory. …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … in line with our theory. …

We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution … in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy … the lazy, we show that lower levels of redistribution emerge in political equilibrium. We provide empirical evidence …

Political economics predicts that the rich oppose redistribution and vote for conservative parties. Although this … characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is caused by income. Although a positive association … between income and conservative voting persists when controlling for unobservables, the magnitude of the effect is reduced by …

model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties …, income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters than for less informed voters. Further, when …, which is also in line with our theory. …

In this paper we explore the links between international migration and income inequality. After presenting a simple … determinants of yearly bilateral migration from a very large pool of countries in the period 1960-2019. The empirical results … whether, to migrate. We find that the effect of inequality at both ends of migration corridors is heterogeneous across …

inequality translates into greater redistribution by shaping the median voter's preferences. While numerous papers have tested … this proposition, the literature has remained divided over the appropriate measure for redistribution. Revisiting the … redistribution should increase in line with inequality. An empirical test based on 110 observations from the Luxembourg Income Study …

inequality translates into greater redistribution by shaping the median voter's preferences. While numerous papers have tested … this proposition, the literature has remained divided over the appropriate measure for redistribution. Revisiting the … redistribution should increase in line with inequality. An empirical test based on 110 observations from the Luxembourg Income Study …