should be provided, determining how the provision of public goods affects the desirability of income redistribution, and … version of the benefit principle of taxation (qualitatively different from those commonly advanced in pertinent literatures …

some key marginal districts. This leads to less public goods, less rents for politicians, more redistribution and larger … politicians redistribution, and smaller government. We confront these predictions with cross-country data from around 1990 …

low, the equilibrium policy is characterized by some amount of general income redistribution and some targeted transfers … interest groups and against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, only general redistribution …

their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited …

efficiency losses without achieving any net redistribution of income …

so, they are effectively accepting a certain amount of politician (presidential) rents in return for redistribution. We … influence or bribe politicians, and when inequality and potential taxes are high (which makes redistribution more valuable to …

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 …

This paper studies the optimal redistribution of income inequality in a model with search and matching frictions in the … workers and heterogeneous firms. The optimal redistribution in this model, which is associated with the constrained efficient …

Various authors, notably Eaton and Rosen (1980a) and Varian (1980), have proposed that income taxation may be justified … private insurance is unavailable. primarily because of moral hazard, and demonstrate that some taxation is efficient because … insurance. Moreover, in the presence of moral hazard, government insurance, through labor income taxation or otherwise, may be …