This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using …

Advanced economies have a significantly longer history of using fiscal policy to tackle inequality and promote … policy can have a significant effect on inequality which provides some cause for optimism about its equity …

The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … inequality. We also examine the effect of the length of electoral periods on redistribution and welfare for different groups and …

What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more … closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To … inequality. To mitigate concerns about reverse causality, I exploit the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) as a plausibly exogenous …

The inheritance tax is often seen as an effective tool to reduce wealth inequality, to raise public budgets if needed … tool for fighting wealth inequality without having distorting effects for the economy. For this purpose, the distributional …

Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …

Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …

deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that is, in redistributing among socio-economic groups. In a context where … findings suggest that horizontal inequality is a dimension which policy makers should take into account when reforming tax and …