the Brazilian case, what could explain the tenacity of inequality in the country? To answer this, the paper, grounded in …

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …. These results suggest that redistributive preferences will diverge even more once public awareness increases that inequality …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in …