benefits are not dependent upon income, this implies a redistribution from high to low earners. An exception can be found in … combination of health insurance and income redistribution leads to an expansion or a contraction of the size of a public health … redistribution tends to expand the size of a public health insurance system. The predictions of the model are confronted with …

impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show …

of the median income earner. This paper shows that if redistribution is achieved by a public provision of goods and …

Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on … the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution and the probability to serve the median voter increases with the … redistribution. Political absenteeism of the poor cannot explain such outcomes. Rather, they can be explained by the electoral …