We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One … redistribution, we find no significant average treatment effect for either treatment in the full sample, although those who …

In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran … political support for distributive policies. The main correlates for support of redistribution are the beliefs concerning the …

. It is important in explaining attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. We examine how economic theory … measures social identity and its effects on preferences towards redistribution, social solidarity and redistributive …

We examine the effect of prospects of upward mobility (POUM) on the support for redistribution in an intragenerational … context. In this context, existing literature so far fails to consider the potential indirect channel via political ideology … income mobility and political ideology, such that the POUM-effect is allowed to vary with political beliefs. We find a robust …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

We examine in how far people's experiences of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We use … growing up are less in favor of redistribution, after controlling for income, demographics, unemployment experiences and …

standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living …. Rising living standards dampen by at least 25% the desired increase in redistribution due to rising inequality. …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …