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Campaign advertising, redistribution and the gap between incomes of rich and poor
Usher, Dan - 2011
The effect of a widening of the distribution of income upon society's choice of the amount of redistribution is a … balancing of two opposing forces: the increase in redistribution in response to the increased ratio of mean to median income and …
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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014 - Preprint
Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …
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Can Information About Inequality and Social Mobility Change Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials in 11 High and Middle-Income Countries
Hoy, Christopher - 2018
the national government to address inequality through redistribution by providing them with information about inequality … preferences for redistribution are only elastic to information in some countries and in the United States both types of … information lowered support for redistribution. Secondly, in middle income countries, information about people's position in the …
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Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by taxpayers and welfare recipients
Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco; Yamamura, Eiji; … - 2017
unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject … redistribution by individuals with high income and to a lower demand for redistribution by those with low income. …
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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Fair Tax Evasion
Barth, Erling; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Ognedal, Tone - 2013
In this paper we analyse how fairness considerations, in particular considerations of just income distribution, affect whether or not people find tax evasion justifiable and their willingness to evade taxes. Using data from the Norwegian “Hidden Labour Market Survey” we show that individuals...
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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget
König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...
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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views
Andre, Peter - 2021
Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle - some experimental evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
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