Literature on inequality and support for redistribution

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Table of contents

Introduction 
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Some stylized facts on demand for redistribution across the world and across time
1.2.1 High levels of demand for redistribution in 2011-2014
1.2.2 A net increase of demand for redistribution compared to 1995
1.2.3 Inequality and of demand for redistribution evolutions: A puzzle
1.3 Literature Review on the determinants of preferences for redistribution
1.4 Thesis structure
2 Evolution of Demand for Governmental Redistribution in the Era of Growing Inequality: The Case of Germany 
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Stylized facts and literature review
2.2.1 The Evolution of inequality in Germany between 1995 and 2016
2.2.2 The drivers of inequality trend
2.2.3 Literature on inequality and support for redistribution
2.3 Data
2.4 Descriptive statistics
2.5 Empirical strategy
2.6 Basic results
2.7 Heterogeneous analysis
2.7.1 Alesina’s Prediction on the convergence of preferences between East and West Germany
2.7.2 Convergence of preferences of most affluent towards those of the less affluent
2.8 Conclusion
3 The Effect of the Arab Spring on Preferences for Redistribution in Egypt 
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Context: The Egyptian Revolution in 2011
3.3 Data and descriptive statistics
3.4 Empirical strategy
3.5 Empirical results
3.5.1 Determinants of preferences for redistribution
3.5.2 Effect of the Revolution on preferences for redistribution
3.6 Discussion and robustness checks
3.7 Conclusion
4 Like Parents Like Child? The Intergenerational Transmission of Pref- erences for Redistribution 
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Data
4.3 The correlation between the redistributive attitudes of children and parents
4.3.1 Poor-redistributive attitudes
4.3.2 Rich-redistributive attitudes
4.3.3 Additional tests
4.4 Channels of transmission of preferences: direct socialization vs indirect socialization
4.4.1 The process of transmission of attitudes towards taxation on poor .
4.4.2 The process of transmission of attitudes towards taxation on rich .
4.5 Mediation analysis : Parent’s redistributive attitudes as confounders.
4.6 Conclusion
5 Conclusion