Promoting Competition or Helping the Less Endowed? Distributional Preferences and Collective Institutional Choices under Intragroup Inequality.

For instance, there has been an overall trend to reduce tax rates for high-income groups over the last several decades in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom (e.g., Piketty and Saez 2007 ; Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez 2012 ; Alvaredo et al. 2013 ). 1 Field observations such as this may not reflect the population’s collective distributional preferences.

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