Support for redistribution in an age of rising inequality: New stylized facts and some tentative explanations

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn 2015, Issue SPRING, 2015, Pages 367-405

  Ashok, Vivekinan ^a   Kuziemko, Ilyana ^b   Washington, Ebonya ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84961711442     PISSN: 00072303     EISSN: 15334465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/eca.2016.0000     Document Type: Article

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