less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …

Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on … the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution and the probability to serve the median voter increases with the … redistribution. Political absenteeism of the poor cannot explain such outcomes. Rather, they can be explained by the electoral …

inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …

We provide an experimental test of theories to explain differences in redistribution preferences across countries. We … involved participants in standardized situations of redistribution in four Western countries, varying the relevance of self …-interest and uncertainty over initial earnings. Demand for redistribution is, on average, lower in the US and Italy than in Norway …

We test for different theories purporting to explain cross-country differences in income redistribution through … standardized experimental choices. US Americans and Italians demand less redistribution than Norwegians and Germans, regardless of … overconfidence by US Americans and Italians further reduces their demand for redistribution under uncertainty. The "Prospect of …