We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … motives, and social concerns relating to inequality and efficiency. Our choice environments feature large groups of subjects … and real world framing, and differ with respect to the source of inequality (earned or arbitrary), the cost of taxation to …

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases … redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The effect of the former is to increase productive investment, and the effect of the … in a panel of countries, the paper finds that inequality has a negative effect on both institutional quality and …

wealth and the likelihood of radical redistribution: while the net benefits of redistribution for members of the poor class …

inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …

and state fiscal policies. We find that the average percentage increase in remaining lifetime spending under the TCJA is 1 …