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In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran … political support for distributive policies. The main correlates for support of redistribution are the beliefs concerning the …
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We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
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We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129910
Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
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lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …
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Support for redistribution depends on whether inequality stems from differences in performance or luck, but different … sources of luck may impact redistribution differentially. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample …
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social preferences for redistribution. Two separate experiments (one in the UK and the other in the USA) show that the elite …
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We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278642
contact of natives reduces their social distance to immigrants, their perception of immigrants as a threat to society, and … governmental redistribution measures, I argue that there is no direct, but an indirect relationship between ethnic diversity and … natives' support for redistribution, with attitudes towards immigrants and immigration acting as mediators. By applying …
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the national government to address inequality through redistribution by providing them with information about inequality … preferences for redistribution are only elastic to information in some countries and in the United States both types of … information lowered support for redistribution. Secondly, in middle income countries, information about people's position in the …
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