Authors:

  • Alberto Alesina

Excerpt

Preferences for Redistribution. Alberto Alesina, January 2009, Paper. "This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General Social Survey, and for a large set of countries, using the World Values Survey. The paper reviews previously found results and provides several new ones..." Link