Educational inequality and public policy preferences: Evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104226

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“…See also Lergetporer et al . (2020) for a similar argument in the case of education spending. In the case of inheritance taxation, the efficiency effects also appear to be somewhat ambiguous.…”

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Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

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Waldenström

2021

Economica

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We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register‐linked Swedish survey, we find that informing individuals about the large aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for inheritance taxation. Changes in the perceived economic importance of inherited wealth and altered views on whether luck matters most for economic success appear to be driving factors behind the treatment effect. Our findings suggest that the low salience of inherited wealth could be one explanation behind the relatively marginalized role of inheritance taxation in developed economies.

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“…Lergetporer et al . (2020) use a survey experiment in a different context, showing that equality of opportunity‐based arguments is important for motivating the support for certain education policies.…”

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Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

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Waldenström

2021

Economica

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“…Views on Fairness.-Respondents are asked two similar (but intentionally not identical) questions about their views on the fairness of the economic system, one before the treatment and one after the treatment. 8 Before the treatment, they are asked whether they perceive the economic system in their country to be "basically fair" or "basically unfair." After the treatment, they are asked whether they believe that everyone in their country gets a chance to succeed (we call it the "American dream" question).…”

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Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Alesina

Stantcheva

Teso

2018

American Economic Review

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Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. Our randomized treatment shows pessimistic information about mobility and increases support for redistribution, mostly for “equality of opportunity” policies. We find strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are more pessimistic about mobility: their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions; and they support more redistribution after seeing pessimistic information. None of this is true for right-wing respondents, possibly because they see the government as a “problem” and not as the “solution.” (JEL D63, D72, H23, H24, J31, J62)

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“…2019; Lergetporer et al . 2020). 13 As indicated by participants’ sociodemographic characteristics described in Table 1, 19% of respondents hold a university degree, 68% hold an apprenticeship degree, and 12% do not hold any professional degree 14 .…”

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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Representative Evidence from Adults and Adolescents

2021

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The gap in university enrolment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey of German adults, 74% of university graduates, but only 36% of those without a university degree, favour university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university. Similarly, 75% of adolescents with universityeducated parents, but only 51% without university-educated parents aspire to a university degree. Experimental provision of general return and cost information does not close the aspiration gap as treatment effects are at least as strong for individuals with a university background as for those without. Differences in economic preference parameters also cannot account for the educational aspiration gap.

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences: Evidence from representative survey experiments

Cited by 33 publications

References 65 publications

Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Representative Evidence from Adults and Adolescents

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