income distribution and the redistribution tastes of the government. When behavioral responses are concentrated along the …

for participants in the Health and Retirement Study to investigate redistribution under the current social security … high lifetime earnings to those with low lifetime earnings. However, much of this apparent redistribution is from men to … the total lifetime earnings, and spouse and survivor benefits are taken into account, the extent of redistribution from …

This paper examines the extent of redistribution that would occur under various annuity and bequest options as part of … account balance. However, efforts to reduce the extent of redistribution generally do so at the cost of significantly lower …

skills or not. The government influences individual decision-making by redistribution of income or by subsidizing investment … in skills. Both types of policies have complicated effects on income inequality and social welfare. The first policy … inequality aversion and financing the subsidy is not too distortive …

costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …

The relationship between the degree of inequality and the demand for redistribution has been a central question in … political science and political economy. The famous median-voter model predicts that higher inequality, reflected in a growing … gap between the income of the average and the median voter, should lead to increased demand for redistribution, as …