outcomes and in politics through lobbying, campaign contributions, and voter mobilization, this work adds a new perspective on …

' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …

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 …

We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution … the net gain that low-skill agents obtain from income redistribution, which only the Left (but not the Right) can credibly … politicians often support liberal immigration policies of unskilled workers, are sometime in favor of free trade with less …

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 …

In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We … on the part of politicians, the effect increases with politicians' clout and with the resources available in the …