step, we focus on how risk exposure and income are related to preferences for redistribution. To test our hypotheses, we … redistribution. Institutions, we argue, mediate governments' reactions to redistributional demands following economic shocks. Using …

on how risk exposure and income are related to preferences for redistribution. To test our hypotheses, we extract … turn our attention to the supply side of government redistribution. Institutions, we argue, mediate governments' reactions …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …