expenditure level and household type. The effects on inequality were founds to be negligible, but the marginal excess burdens …

is taken into account by introducing the government's aversion to inequality into the social welfare function. We also … expected, the degree of selectivity is more significant for higher inequality aversion parameters. Moreover, as the tax revenue … when the central planner's degree of aversion to inequality is high enough. On the other hand, poll transfer levels are …

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …