Your place in the world: relative income and global inequality
Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conducted a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative s...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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American economic journal. Economic policy
Year: 2022, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 232-268 |
| ISSN: | 1945-774X |
| DOI: | 10.1257/pol.20200343 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20200343 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20200343 Verlag, Appendix, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pol.20200343.appx 
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| Author Notes: | by Dietmar Fehr, Johanna Mollerstrom, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia |
| Summary: | Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conducted a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans. We measure how individuals form perceptions of their ranks in the national and global income distributions and how these perceptions relate to their national and global policy preferences. We find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world's income distribution but that correcting those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 18.01.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1945-774X |
| DOI: | 10.1257/pol.20200343 |