ground acceleration registered during each shock with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution we show that …A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We … inequalities should be levelled by redistribution. The shocks, however, are not all alike. We find that only the last three shakes …

the impact of a negative shock affecting every strata of the population, such as the development of COVID-19, on … preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …

the impact of a negative shock affecting every strata of the population, such as the development of COVID-19, on … preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …

unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject … redistribution by individuals with high income and to a lower demand for redistribution by those with low income. …

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random “bad luck” can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …