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Motivated political reasoning: the formation of belief-value constellations
Barron, Kai; Becker, Anna; Huck, Steffen - 2021
We study the causal relationship between moral values ("ought" statements) and factual beliefs ("is" statements) and show that, contrary to predictions of orthodox Bayesian models, values exert an influence on beliefs. This effect is mediated by prior political leanings and, thus, contributes to...
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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...
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Income misperception and populism
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022
We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...
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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences
Klimm, Felix - 2018
Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...
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Leaping into the dark : a theory of policy gambles
Anand, Kartik; Gai, Prasanna; König, Philipp Johann - 2020
Why do politicians sometimes pursue policies with uncertain outcomes? We present a model in which politicians are unable to pre-commit to a status quo policy, and where investors and voters face a conflict over the division of output. Politicians may deviate from the status quo and pursue risky...
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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods
Krieger, Tommy - 2020
health-promoting public goods improves with the political influence of the landless elite. We also provide evidence for two …
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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from more redistributive countries and the propensity of the high-skilled to settle in … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …
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Why local governments set climate targets : effects of city size and political costs
Eisenack, Klaus - 2023
Cities increasingly address climate change, e.g. by pledging city-level emission reduction targets. This is puzzling for the provision of a global public good: what are city governments' reasons for doing so, and do pledges actually translate into emission reductions? Empirical studies have...
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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget
König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...
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