for participants in the Health and Retirement Study to investigate redistribution under the current social security … high lifetime earnings to those with low lifetime earnings. However, much of this apparent redistribution is from men to … the total lifetime earnings, and spouse and survivor benefits are taken into account, the extent of redistribution from …

of the population, its cause was unknown. Many contemporaries blamed the Jews. Cities all over Germany witnessed mass … indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. Pogroms during the Black Death are a strong and robust predictor of violence against Jews … higher deportation rates for Jews after 1933, were more likely to see synagogues damaged or destroyed in the 'Night of Broken …

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 …

the concurrent decline in welfare-state redistribution. This paper develops a model, which can provide an explanation for …-economy balance and the redistributive policies. The paper highlights the differences in the political-economy induced redistribution …

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 …