We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …

' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …

Utilizing a simplified version of the Meltzer-Richard redistribution mechanism we designed a laboratory experiment to … test whether it matters if voters were asked to decide on a tax rate or minimum income, leaving the redistribution … mechanism itself unchanged. Framing the vote about redistribution as a decision about a minimal income increases the ideally …