conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …

opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and … lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes …, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends …

find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution, but that correcting …

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

of utility, and lower preferred levels of income redistribution. In societies with a low level of actual social mobility … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …

a debt trap requires consideration of less standard macroeconomic policies, such as those focused on redistribution or …