Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education with three overlapping … benefits. The presence of productivity differences introduces a time-consistency problem with repeated voting. This can be …

receive utility from the act of voting. However, this leaves open the question of whether or not there is a significant margin … consideration of the likelihood that they will be pivotal. Among the remainder, the probability of voting is related to variables …

their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes … inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs … under the welfare state. We investigate bidimensional voting on the tax rates that determine the allocation of government …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs … under the welfare state. We investigate bidimensional voting on the tax rates that determine the allocation of government …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …

significantly affects voting behavior. An increase in the concentration of PM10 by 10μg/m3 – around two within-county standard …

I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …