margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …

undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of … free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the causal effect of expected redistribution associated with the US Trade …. We find that a one standard deviation increase in redistribution leads to more than a 3% point increase in the …

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 …

This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British … intervention for income redistribution. The effect is robust to several specifications, samples, longitudinal models and … effect indicates that the homo oeconomicus effect does not exert an impact on attitudes to redistribution for the less …