redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens …

in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine learning method to compute measures of textual similarity …

, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant parties and lowering preferences for redistribution and diversity …

relative utility comparisons, support for redistribution depends not only on absolute income but on one's status relative to a …

James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and …

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 …

Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of … culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design … testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does need to be the case. We introduce a narrower definition of culture that …