the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

-wise linear methods, then a majority voting equilibrium exists. Furthermore, if most voters have income below mean income then …

make effort and there is little redistribution. In the other one, there is no effort and nothing to redistribute. A … solution to the repeated game allows for redistribution and high effort, by the threat to revert to the worst of these … equilibria. Our results show that redistribution with high effort is not sustainable. The main reason for the absence of …

Standard majority-voting models predict that redistribution is positively linked to the mean-to-median income ratio but … important to consider the source of rising mean-to-median ratios. Income growth of the poor can lead to less redistribution as … more agents perceive themselves to be rich, which tends to reduce the support for redistribution. An empirical application …