determination of a country's political regime, trade policy and income-tax-based redistribution scheme. Three socioeconomic groups …

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 …

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 …

attendance, labor supply, wage determination, and aggregate production, which is used to compare alternative redistribution …

public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …

should be provided, determining how the provision of public goods affects the desirability of income redistribution, and …

In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail …: democracy does not lead to a uniform decline in post-tax inequality, but can result in changes in fiscal redistribution and …

reward subjects vote in favor of greater redistribution when a very small fraction of high-effort individuals is added to a … causes the most generous rich subjects to vote for less redistribution. These results suggest that anecdotes about the … deservedness of a small group of transfer recipients may be effective in changing support for redistribution. We find large gender …