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for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an …
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The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about individual performances, but in practice, such...
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We empirically analyze the relationship between income inequality and individual preferences for public redistribution … preferences for public redistribution. However, as the earned income inequality between partners increases, the poorer partner …'s preference for public redistribution declines while the richer partner's preference for public redistribution increases. The …
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The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study … less redistribution, women are more in favor of redistribution than men on average, and older people favor it more than … more redistribution than people who are more prone to taking risks. The results help us understand which policies are …
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individual preferences for income redistribution and perceptions regarding income differences. This paper used cross … characteristics, the key findings are as follows: (1) an individual is more likely to prefer income redistribution policy in countries …
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Are differences in preferences for redistribution between right and left wing voters amplified because of … to convergence in preferences for redistribution and charitable giving between right and left wing voters. The effect …
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The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
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-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
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I present new quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between tax policies and the distribution of income. I focus on twentieth century United States, and on the personal income tax, since its inception. I study three major policy events that, as the existing literature shows,...
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individual support for income redistribution. This study investigates how people form beliefs regarding the extent to which work …
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