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 …

measurement of democracy. I proceed in two step. In the first part, I describe the classical approach for producing a measure of … democracy and sketch an alternative approach. The second part provides an overview about existing democracy index. …

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect …

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 …

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 …

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