Gender, income, education and self-employment are robust predictors for individual support for redistribution in the … a robust association with preferences for redistribution. However, education, income, individual autonomy and moral … worth of the poor remain important determinants. On average, preferences for redistribution indicate that within the OECD …

negatively to redistribution decisions that do not fit any fairness ideals. Our results suggest that even in the realm of moral …

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

This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support … for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … release income information on Finland's top earners to the public. To identify causal effects we compare respondents who took …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. …