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. 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 … play a role in the political economy context. -- Redistribution ; other-regarding preferences ; median voter ; experiments …
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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815448
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 …
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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …
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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886952
preferences for redistribution in Italy. Our randomized treatments show that preferences for redistribution are generally …
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Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …
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We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … and real world framing, and differ with respect to the source of inequality (earned or arbitrary), the cost of taxation to … the decision maker, the dead-weight loss of taxation, uncertainty about own pre-tax income, and whether the decisionmaker …
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