This paper examines the effects of a unilateral reform of the redistribution policy in an economy open to international …-reforming trading partner, the unilateral redistribution policy reform resembles a unilateral increase in trade costs leading to a …

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 …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

importance of fairness preferences, risk aversion, and self-interest in determining support for redistribution by conducting a … redistribution and the level of redistribution that maximizes additive social welfare. Most of our subjects prefer that there be less … inequality among others and demand for redistribution responds in predictable ways to the cost of taxation and to the dead …

This paper introduces a new survey item to measure preferences for income redistribution. Respondents construct their … income quintile update automatically to keep government revenues fixed and take into account the costs of redistribution …