Understanding preferences for income redistribution
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Understanding Preferences for Income Redistribution
We are grateful for funding under the Robock Award in Empirical Economics from the University of Wisconsin. Wei-Yin Loh provided invaluable advice on the implementation of the tree regression methods employed in this paper. Keely thanks WARF and the Brookings Institution for generous research support, and Brookings for their hospitality. Tan thanks the generous research support provided by the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.11.006