We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …

-transfer scheme with workfare rather than without workfare. This is due to the fact that a higher degree of redistribution can be …

.4 % per year in the 1999-2005 period. Second, we find that growth of and redistribution in per-capita hou- sehold income have … redistribution of per-capita income. On the other hand, poverty reductions in rural areas are mainly explained by the sustained …

, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a … younger and older parties, older left-wing parties are more likely to internalize the long-run costs of redistribution and to … be more credible in their commitment to redistribution, leading them to redistribute less. With entirely different data …

The intra-generational redistribution in the Argentinean pension program is assessed in a lifetime basis. Using …

Experiences in childhood are hypothesized to influence preference formation for redistribution in adulthood. For … example, eldest male children who suffer loss because of parental redistribution are less likely to endorse government … number of older siblings. Younger children are therefore more likely to prefer redistribution. The Japanese General Social …

phenomenon, household income is used as a proxy for votersʹ preferences with respect to redistribution. Even when the majority … of voters are in favor of redistribution, if districts are constructed with a sufficient level of conservative … gerrymandering, the policy outcome under representative democracy will favor far less redistribution than the policy outcome under …