The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution in a country is still ongoing. We … initial inequality, there should be more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. We test these … redistribution and, to some extent, that there is more redistribution with rising inequality. Hence, on the basis of a direct measure …

claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic … fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …

blocks of lifetime disparities. We look at lifetime inequality and the redistribution properties of taxes and benefits using …In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on … annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime …

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We show that inequality may have no discernible effect on the size of redistributive programs. …

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this … partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined …