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Roth, Christopher and Wohlfart, Johannes (2018) Experienced inequality and preferences for redistribution. Journal of Public Economics, 167 . pp. 251-262. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.09.012 ISSN 0047-2727.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.09.012
Abstract
We examine whether individuals' experienced levels of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We use several large nationally representative datasets to show that people who have experienced higher inequality during their lives are less in favor of redistribution, after controlling for income, demographics, unemployment experiences and current macroeconomic conditions. They are also less likely to support left-wing parties and to consider the prevailing distribution of incomes to be unfair. We provide evidence that these findings do not operate through extrapolation from own circumstances, perceived relative income or trust in the political system, but seem to operate through the respondents' fairness views.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Public Economics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0047-2727 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 167 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 251-262 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.09.012 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 July 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 October 2020 |
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