redistribution kept the gap in disposable income between those same households roughly constant, while also closing the gap between …

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 …

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …

quantify whether this is due to changes in preferences or changes in the circumstances each generation has faced. Changing …

, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a … younger and older parties, older left-wing parties are more likely to internalize the long-run costs of redistribution and to … be more credible in their commitment to redistribution, leading them to redistribute less. With entirely different data …

Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an … political economy of redistribution and the potential for information interventions to shift support for fiscal adjustment …