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April 29, 2025

How community networks shape elections after a crisis

New study explores the effect of social capital on post-disaster voting

  • elections
  • Italy
  • natural disasters
  • redistribution
  • relief spending
  • social capital
  • Fabio Sabatini
  • Giovanni Gualtieri
  • Marcella Nicolini
  • Marco Ventura
Research

September 16, 2024

How do unequal opportunities impact support for redistribution?

New research reveals people are more tolerant of inequality when earnings inequality is due to unequal opportunities

  • inequality
  • luck
  • opportunity
  • redistribution
  • Germán Reyes
  • Jason Somerville
  • Joy Wu
  • Marcel Preuss
Research

November 27, 2019

How earthquakes affect social preferences

When people are exposed to a disaster, their demand for redistribution increases

  • inequality
  • Italy
  • natural experiment
  • redistribution
  • Fabio Sabatini
  • Giovanni Gualtieri
  • Marcella Nicolini
Research

March 15, 2019

Immigration and attitudes toward redistribution in Europe

How the share of immigrants at the regional level affects popular support for welfare policies

  • attitudes
  • Europe
  • immigration
  • redistribution
  • welfare
  • Alberto Alesina
  • Elie Murard
  • Hillel Rapoport
Research

August 30, 2018

Immigration of poor voters increases redistribution

West German cities responded with higher taxes and welfare spending to post-WWII inflow of forced migrants

  • expellees
  • immigration
  • natives
  • redistribution
  • refugees
  • taxation
  • voting
  • welfare
  • Andreas Lichter
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Nico Pestel
Research

February 17, 2014

Money makes people more right-wing

Voting is the foundation of modern democracy. The causes of people’s political attitudes, however, are largely unknown. Are people’s party […]

  • left-wing
  • lottery
  • money
  • political party
  • political preferences
  • redistribution
  • right-wing
  • self-interest
  • voting
  • windfall
  • Andrew J. Oswald
  • Nattavudh Powdthavee
Research

January 7, 2014

Making work more attractive: increase the VAT and reduce labor taxes

What is the right mix between direct taxes, such as personal income taxes or social security contributions, and indirect taxes […]

  • consumption
  • direct taxation
  • employment
  • Germany
  • income distribution
  • income taxation
  • indirect taxation
  • labor
  • microsimulation
  • redistribution
  • social security contributions
  • VAT
  • work incentives
  • Eric Sommer
  • Nico Pestel
Research

November 15, 2013

Extending paid maternity leave makes no sense economically

Paid maternity leave has become more and more popular over the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the […]

  • fertility
  • financial costs
  • government budget
  • labor market effects
  • marriage
  • maternity leave
  • Norway
  • OECD
  • paid maternity leave
  • redistribution
  • school
  • taxes
  • Gordon B. Dahl
  • Kari Vea Salvanes
  • Katrine Vellesen Loken
  • Magne Mogstad

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