The Altruistic Rich? Inequality and Other-Regarding Preferences for Redistribution

*The authors share equal responsibility for the contents of this article. The order of author names is alphabetic. Previous versions of this article were presented at the 2014 meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, the 2014 meetings of the American Political Science Association, at the Workshop on “Redistribution: Politics, Law, and Policy” at the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy (SUNY—Buffalo), the Center for the Study of Inequality at Yale University, the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, the Kolloquium des Fachbereichs Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft at the University of Konstanz, and SUNY Buffalo Law School. In addition to the participants in these meetings, we would like to thank Jim Alt, Michael Becher, Pablo Beramendi, Michael Boucai, Thomas Gschwend, Torben Iversen, Xiaobo Lü, Isabela Mares, Yotam Margalit, Tony O’Rourke, Jonas Pontusson, Philipp Rehm, Sue Stokes, Vesla Weaver, and Jim Wooten. David Rueda thanks the National Research Foundation of Korea for partial support of this research (grant number: 2014S1A3A2044032).