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and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …
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further corroborated using various complementary measures of individuals' perception of the chances and risks associated with … an unequal distribution of economic resources, such as their perception of the chances of upward mobility. I finally show …
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agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …
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Several studies have demonstrated that income inequality has risen since the 1960s. Other studies have found that people underestimate the extent of the inequality. Reasons for these mis-perceptions include over-reliance on one's own local environment and ideologically-motivated reasoning. We...
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This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form … their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective … inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality. However, a model that links demand for redistribution to subjective …
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and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …
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. The main research question raised in the paper is whether our perception of income differentiation is driven by experience …
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