voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged …

“blunt instrument” for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …

Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole … inequality. Second, we find that this result is driven largely by the lack of redistribution across the middle and upper part of … distribution. Third, in cases where redistribution does occur, we find it is not efficiently targeted: many high income households …

-generational redistribution strategically to make the repayment of debt politically viable? Using a two-generations game-theoretic model, we …

for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an …