of Becker's theory to model preferences over continuous time blocks. To examine whether the predictions of the model are …

redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

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 …

lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …

effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later …

This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results … show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The … findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest – namely as insurance …