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Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative Explanations

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  • Vivekinan Ashok

    (Yale University)

  • Ilyana Kuziemko

    (Princeton University)

  • Ebonya Washington

    (Yale University)

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  • Vivekinan Ashok & Ilyana Kuziemko & Ebonya Washington, 2015. "Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative Explanations," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 46(1 (Spring), pages 367-433.
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    2. Anthony B. Atkinson & Thomas Piketty & Emmanuel Saez, 2011. "Top Incomes in the Long Run of History," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 49(1), pages 3-71, March.
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