inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …

representative. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewness of the distribution) yields a lower …

model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The decisive voter chooses redistribution contributing to abatement …, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain better environmental quality …, which supports empirical research. Inequality does not appear to be harmful for the environment, and it dampens the effect …

redistribution to finance abatement. By comparing the optimal taxation under alternative political regimes we analyze their … implications for environment, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain … better environmental quality, which supports empirical research. Inequality does not appear to be harmful for the environment …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …

deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …

metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social … cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of inequality - heterogeneity in income below the national level. We … inequality between and within countries. In particular, we demonstrate that climate and distributional policy cannot be separated …