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Do religious beliefs explain preferences for income redistribution? Experimental evidence
Neustadt, Ilja - 2010
Due to the mixed empirical evidence bearing on the economic determinants, beliefs have been at the center of attention of research into preferences for income redistribution. We elicit preferences for income redistribution through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315490
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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315571
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Economic Well-Being, Social Mobility and Preferences for Income Redistribution : Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
Neustadt, Ilja - 2010
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, unemployed, old-age pensioners, families with children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151629
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Risk aversion and other factors determine income redistribution preferences
Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 17/18, pp. 151-156
The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study, based on a representative survey conducted in Sweden, confirms earlier results: Higher incomes are correlated with wanting less redistribution, women are more in favor of...
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Don't stop believin' : heterogeneous updating of intergenerational mobility perceptions across income groups
Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023
This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321511
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Don't stop believin' - heterogeneous updating of intergenerational mobility perceptions across income groups
Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023
This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321966
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Behind the support for redistributive politics : social preferences or beliefs?
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Cabrales, Antonio; Espinosa, … - 2024
importance of the poverty problem (need). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632365
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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity: Evidence from the BRFSS
Volland, Benjamin - 2012
Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of … of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327366
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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity : evidence from the BRFSS
Volland, Benjamin - 2012 - This version 21st May 2012
Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of … of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552221
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? : cross-country and longitudinal evidence
Costa-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013
The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199440