oligarchs and foreign companies and agencies, while poverty and inequality grew to record levels. This paper shows the intense …

The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the … monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical and experimental … methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social behavior) across Sub-Saharan Africa. In this chapter, we consider the …

The relation between income inequality and support for redistributive policies has long being debated by social … (Eurobarometer 471) and matching it with an array of regional and national inequality measures. Using binary choice models, we show … that support for redistribution is positively linked with the level of income inequality. The same association is found for …

This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into … further corroborated using various complementary measures of individuals' perception of the chances and risks associated with … an unequal distribution of economic resources, such as their perception of the chances of upward mobility. I finally show …

This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into … further corroborated using various complementary measures of individuals' perception of the chances and risks associated with … an unequal distribution of economic resources, such as their perception of the chances of upward mobility. I finally show …

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between …. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions … same inequality perceptions and distributional norms …