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How does exposure to Covid-19 influence health and income inequality aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2021

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …

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Experts and epidemics

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020

Do experts adjust their policy recommendations when the facts change? We conduct a large-scale randomized experiment among 1,224 economic experts across 109 countries that includes two treatments. The first treatment is the geographic and temporal variation in the initial spread of Covid-19...

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Information and preferences for public spending : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Schwerdt, Guido; Werner, Katharina; … - 2016

The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide treatment groups with information on current spending...

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World price shocks, income, and democratization

Zissimos, Benjamin - 2015

This paper shows how a world price shock can increase the likelihood that democratization must be used to resolve the threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world price shock can push the country into a situation...

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The political costs of oil price shocks

Arezki, Rabah; Djankov, Simeon; Nguyen, Ha; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022

We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief executives. Oil import price shocks cause a reduction in the odds of reelection of incumbents, an increase in media chatter about fuel prices, and an increase in non-violent...

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Past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes in Europe

Gavresi, Despina; Litina, Anastasia - 2021

This paper explores the interplay between past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes. We document that individuals who experienced a macroeconomic shock during their impressionable years (between 18 and 25 years of age), are currently more prone to voting for populist parties,...

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Political activists as free-riders : evidence from a natural field experiment

Hager, Anselm; Hensel, Lukas; Hermle, Johannes; Roth, … - 2020

How does a citizen's decision to participate in political activism depend on the participation of others? We conduct a nation-wide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European party during a recent national election. In a seemingly unrelated survey, we randomly provide...

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Experienced inequality and preferences for redistribution

Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2016

We examine in how far people's experiences of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We use several large nationally representative datasets to provide evidence that people who have experienced more inequality while growing up are less in favor of redistribution, after...

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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...

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Earthquakes, religion, and transition to self-government in Italian cities

Belloc, Marianna; Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2015

For a panel of 122 cities observed over 300 years in medieval northern-central Italy, we document that the occurrence of an earthquake retarded institutional transition from the feudal regime to the commune (free city state) in cities where the political and the religious leaders were one and...

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