In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was …

helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … “the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

effects on preferences for redistribution of correcting faulty beliefs. We implement a tailor-made survey in Sweden and … income position. Respondents who learn that they are richer than they thought demand less redistribution and increase their … altruism or moral values about redistribution. Moreover, the effect can be reconciled by people with political preferences to …

The last decade has seen a sharp increase in interest in the possible existence of a Paradox of Redistribution (PoR …

We examine the relationship between changes in a country’s public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and …-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living … rising inequality at the top. The data also weakly suggest a decrease in inequality at the bottom. The distributional impact …

), incorporates social occupations in the lab society, and allows for (voluntary) redistribution among subjects. The results show that …, regardless of (non-)random assignment to social jobs and the level of income inequality, individuals in social jobs are only …

inequality interacted with the elasticity of substitution of the goods provided in the market and those publicly provided. This …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …