This paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods … the best available estimates of both pre- and post-redistribution inequality for the largest set of countries and periods … redistribution and the impacts of redistribution on growth can be misleading. …

inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …