redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens …

recognized by all agents. I then use the framework to reassess the relationship between inequality and redistribution. The model … why the standard median-voter-based prediction, that more inequality produces more redistribution, has received little …, there is a non-monotonic relationship in which redistribution is initially increasing but eventually decreasing in …

We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social …

financed through age-dependent taxation that distorts human capital investment. Taxes redistribute income both across different …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …

This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the … relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities …—and the mapping between these functions and various forms of taxation. Different types of taxation as well as expenditures on …

competition. Three models are considered: Taxation and Redistribution, Public Goods, and Fixed Prices. In each case, the value …