redistribution creates more post-tax inequality. The welfare state will encounter severe risks when free migration of people, goods …

imperfections make future earning a function of current resources. Combined with the politics of redistribution this creates the … potential for multiple steady-states, with mutually reinforcing high inequality and low redistribution, or vice-versa. Temporary …

situation is resolved at the group level (rather than the individual level) through cooperation and fair distribution of the …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize and …

The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate …

-scale causal evidence of the impact of economic conditions on policy preferences. Consistent with economic theory, we find that …

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 …

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries … 1945 to 1990, East Germans lived under a Communist regime with heavy state intervention and extensive redistribution. We … find that, after German reunification, East Germans are more in favor of redistribution and state intervention than West …

immigrants and how these perceptions influence their preferences for redistribution. We find strikingly large misperceptions … redistribution, in a randomized manner, makes them support less redistribution, including actual donations to charities. Information … immigrants and reduces their support for redistribution. An anecdote about a "hard working'' immigrant is somewhat more effective …