cost efficient redistribution between income groups even if the government cannot observe the individuals' incomes. This … paper examines how redistribution through public provision of private goods extends to the case of repeated interaction …

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our theory predicts that target-specific beliefs about the poor matter most … welfare recipients supports our theory. We also find, in theory, the ex-istence of a moral release equilibrium in which the …

redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

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 …

measure spectators' inequality preferences as redistribution among “others.” Here, we conducted a spectator experiment in … which we fixed the redistribution choice set and varied the salience of the “no distribution” choice. We found a strong ….34, to very high, at 0.62. After the spectators made their redistribution choice, we asked them what motivated their choice …

resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator …'s redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. In a … of redistribution and are more likely to be Democrats. …

redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than in the glare of full information. However, the scope … of redistribution is less sensitive to the degree of uncertainty than predicted by a model of selfish and rational … expected utility maximizers. For all degrees of uncertainty, we find a coexistence of libertarianism and redistribution as well …