for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of …

. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as …

This paper examines the political economy of redistribution when voters have asymmetric information about the …

Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy … redistribution increases in the income skew - and that between the safely employed and the unemployed or precariously employed - in … (redistribution/social-insurance), and political participation. This paper represents an attempt to elaborate the nature of these …

Despite a strong theoretical prediction that income skewness and redistribution should be positively linked, empirical … skewness. Under imperfect information, these developments affect redistribution in different ways. While rising polarization … increases redistribution, upward mobility can have the opposite effect. Reasonable degrees of informational imperfection are …

substantial support for taxation and redistribution among conservatives. This treatment closes upwards of half the gap in …I show that a stylized fact on the decades-long stability in preferences for income redistribution – which has …

This paper introduces a new survey item to measure preferences for income redistribution. Respondents construct their … income quintile update automatically to keep government revenues fixed and take into account the costs of redistribution … investigate the formation of redistributive preferences. Information about efficiency costs of taxation and the use of social …