Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently …

agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …

occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the … perceptions of how wages are determined in reality all simultaneously influence the demand for redistribution. Finally, I show … that subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution are substantially significant predictors of both …

This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical …

A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We … ground acceleration registered during each shock with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution we show that … inequalities should be levelled by redistribution. The shocks, however, are not all alike. We find that only the last three shakes …

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of … immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of …

' subjects determines later redistributive decisions among the 'heir' subjects. On average, redistribution is highest among the …

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 …

comparison, more explicit. On the basis of microdata from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for married couples in Germany, we …