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"Last-Place Aversion" : Evidence and Redistributive Implications
Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2011
Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place …" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122222
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Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution : A Laboratory Study
Agranov, Marina; Palfrey, Thomas R. - 2021
rates, inequality, and income redistribution. We also extend that model to incorporate social preferences in the form of … altruism and inequality aversion. The experiment varies the amount of inequality and the collective choice procedure to … directions implied by altruism or inequality aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225000
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Can State Taxes Redistribute Income?
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010
efficiency losses without achieving any net redistribution of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139299
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Optimal Income Redistribution When Individual Welfare Depends Upon Relative Income
Boskin, Michael J.; Sheshinski, Eytan - 2021
The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy …, of course, an additional incentive for income redistribution from wealthy to poor citizens is created and the logical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226590
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The Efficiency of the Legal System Versus the Income Tax in Redistributing Income
Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven - 2021
? This article demonstrates that redistribution accomplished through legal rules is systematically less efficient than … redistribution accomplished through the income tax system -- even though the latter distorts incentives to work. In particular. a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213430
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Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes
Kaplow, Louis - 2021
The federal income tax and major welfare programs do not take into account significant cost-of-living variations among regions. This article considers what adjustments might be appropriate in light of the distributive purposes of tax and welfare systems and concerns about the efficiency of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242909
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Efficient Redistribution
Boar, Corina; Midrigin, Virgiliu - 2022
What are the most efficient means of redistribution in an unequal economy? We answer this question by characterizing … changing household preferences, the distribution of ability, the planner’s preference for redistribution, as well as to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094803
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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited … income inequality and choices of redistributive policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134300
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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074913
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Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution : the Poum Hypothesis
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - 2021
Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they or their children … in large-scale expropriation and highly progressive redistribution. But is it compatible with everyone -- especially the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218092