Disincentives from Redistribution: Evidence on a Dividend of Democracy
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Disincentives from Redistribution : Evidence on a Dividend of Democracy. / Sausgruber, Rupert; Sonntag, Axel; Tyran, Jean-Robert Karl.
2019.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Disincentives from Redistribution
T2 - Evidence on a Dividend of Democracy
AU - Sausgruber, Rupert
AU - Sonntag, Axel
AU - Tyran, Jean-Robert Karl
PY - 2019/10/28
Y1 - 2019/10/28
N2 - We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is substantially smaller when redistribution is chosen in a vote than when it is imposed. Redistribution seems to be more legitimate, and hence less demotivating, when accepted in a vote.
AB - We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is substantially smaller when redistribution is chosen in a vote than when it is imposed. Redistribution seems to be more legitimate, and hence less demotivating, when accepted in a vote.
KW - redistribution
KW - disincentive effect
KW - voting
KW - legitimacy
KW - real-effort task
KW - lab experiment
KW - C92
KW - D31
KW - D72
KW - H23
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3475358
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3475358
M3 - Working paper
T3 - University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online)
BT - Disincentives from Redistribution
ER -
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