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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget
König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108653
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Social image concerns and welfare take-up
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how...
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Taxes and the division of social status
Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2023
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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023
People with higher-incomes tend to support less redistribution than lower-income people. This has been attributed not … each of these mechanisms and compare their mediating roles in the relationship between status and redistribution. In our … primary mechanism underlying self-serving differences in support for redistribution. …
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Adapting or compounding? : the effects of recurring labour shocks on stated and revealed preferences for redistribution
Cotofan, Maria; Matakos, Konstantinos - 2023
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Rethinking commodity taxation : the new status redistribution channel
Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2024
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Government expenditure in the DINA framework : allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality
Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022
Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g.,...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427523
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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods
Krieger, Tommy - 2020
We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...
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