, jurisdictions are subject to fiscal incentives to expand this land use. Fiscal redistribution through equalization grants, however …

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 …

this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth … conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for … lower marginal tax rates. The endogeneity of returns generates an inequality multiplier effect between wealth and its …

influence preferences for redistribution and public policies. We consider both cross-country and individual level evidence on … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while … redistribution among left-leaning citizens, while this difference is significant among moderates in the expected direction …

We examine in how far people’s experiences of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We use … several large nationally representative datasets to provide evidence that people who have experienced more inequality while … growing up are less in favor of redistribution, after controlling for income, demographics, unemployment experiences and …

ties), pension systems act as a flat safety net entailing a large within-cohort redistribution, and viceversa in societies …