Why do the poor vote for low tax rates? A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution
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- Natalia Jimenez & Elena Molis-Bañales & Angel Solano-Garcia, 2019. "Why do the poor vote for low tax rates? A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution," Working Papers 19.12, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
income inequality; income redistribution; voting; taxation; real-effort task.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
- J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2019-10-28 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2019-10-28 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2019-10-28 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2019-10-28 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
- NEP-PBE-2019-10-28 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2019-10-28 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2019-10-28 (Public Finance)
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