so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at lower cost. The French tax code should be simplified and changed …

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 …

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility …

-post incentives to renege on the promised tax schedule. Any increase in redistribution ex-post would lead to some agents not being …