' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents …

Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality …

Several studies have linked rising insolvency rates to increasing inequality and argued that this might be explained by …, I test whether the probability to become insolvent is related to inequality in one's reference group or to one's income … varying the definition of relevant reference groups. I find that there is a positive relationship between inequality and …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

with income inequality. In line with the fall in income inequality in the region, we document a widespread, although modest … inequality for 17 out of the 18 countries for which microdata is available. Our analysis reveals unfairness perceptions are more … correlated with relative measures of income inequality than absolute ones and that individual characteristics are correlated with …

social preferences transmitted by ideology. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents and analyze their …

overestimate their position reduce their aversion to inequality after learning their position, while those who underestimate their …We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … for redistribution after learning about the shape of the wealth distribution. In contrast, older participants decrease …