Should education be subsidized for the purpose of redistribution? The usual argument against subsidies to education … the absence of a strive for redistribution, the market generates the efficient level of investment in human capital. When … there is a demand for redistribution, the general equilibrium effects on relative wages might make a subsidy to education an …

; redistribution ; welfare …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases 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 …