Hierarchical Modelling of Disparities in Preferences for Redistribution*

Pittau, Maria Grazia; Massari, Riccardo; Zelli, Roberto

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00703.x

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“…A number of studies have empirically assessed the determinants of preferences for redistribution relying mostly on surveys including questions about perceptions and values on redistribution and inequality. Some examples are Georgiadis and Manning (2012); Pittau et al (2013); Kerr (2014), Alesina and Giuliano (2011); Alesina and La Ferrara (2005); Luttmer and Singhal (2011);Guillaud (2013) and Corneo and Grüner (2002). Although all these works, and related ones, are important in the literature of preferences for redistribution, they do not address the effects of a major economic event, namely, the 2008/09 financial crisis.…”

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Preferences for redistribution after the economic crisis

Olivera

2014

Econom. bus. letters

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This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in 23 European countries. After implementing a decomposition of the variation in these preferences, it is showed that the crisis was highly significant in increasing support for redistribution. It is found that more unemployment and, in particular, youth unemployment has considerably raised the citizens' demand for redistribution.

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Preferences for redistribution after the economic crisis

Olivera

2014

Econom. bus. letters

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“…Survey-based studies find a positive association between low economic status and stated preferences for redistributive taxation and spending (12)(13)(14)(15)(16). However, although these surveybased results are consistent with our conjecture, they are also consistent with pure self-interest; purely self-interested individuals would state a preference for minimal or no redistribution when they are relatively well-off as this would minimize their tax burden, but would shift to favoring redistribution on becoming relatively poor owing to job loss (17).…”

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Moral consequences of becoming unemployed

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Úbeda

2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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We test the conjecture that becoming unemployed erodes the extent to which a person acknowledges earned entitlement. We use behavioral experiments to generate incentive-compatible measures of individuals' tendencies to acknowledge earned entitlement and incorporate these experiments in a two-stage study. In the first stage, participants' acknowledgment of earned entitlement was measured by engaging them in the behavioral experiments, and their individual employment status and other relevant socioeconomic characteristics were recorded. In the second stage, a year later, the process was repeated using the same instruments. The combination of the experimentally generated data and the longitudinal design allows us to investigate our conjecture using a difference-in-difference approach, while ruling out the pure selfinterest confound. We report evidence consistent with a large, negative effect of becoming unemployed on the acknowledgment of earned entitlement.U nderstanding how becoming unemployed affects people's reasoning is important. Unemployment and the poverty it engenders is associated with depression, anxiety, stress, low subjective well-being and self-esteem, heightened aversion to risk, and a greater tendency to discount the future within the individual (1-7), and higher rates of suicide, murder, and alcoholrelated death across countries (8, 9). We investigate a different kind of effect, a moral consequence of unemployment that, alongside unemployment's effects on mental health, could explain why people are disengaging from the labor market (10). We test the conjecture that becoming unemployed erodes the extent to which a person acknowledges earned entitlement, i.e., acknowledges an individual's right to keep, consume, or dispose of that which was gained through his or her own effort or endeavor. This right and its acknowledgment underpins labor market functioning and guides taxation and government-spending policy worldwide (11).Survey-based studies find a positive association between low economic status and stated preferences for redistributive taxation and spending (12-16). However, although these surveybased results are consistent with our conjecture, they are also consistent with pure self-interest; purely self-interested individuals would state a preference for minimal or no redistribution when they are relatively well-off as this would minimize their tax burden, but would shift to favoring redistribution on becoming relatively poor owing to job loss (17).We used behavioral experiments to generate incentivecompatible measures of individuals' tendencies to acknowledge earned entitlement that cannot be driven by pure self-interest (18). We incorporated these experiments into an unusual two-stage study. In the first stage, participants' acknowledgment of earned entitlement was measured by engaging them in the behavioral experiments, and their individual employment status and other relevant socioeconomic characteristics were recorded. In the second stage, a year later, the process was repeated using the sa...

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“…La ideología constituiría su factor descriptivo. De acuerdo con la evidencia empírica, los individuos de izquierdas favorecen en mayor medida la redistribución (Lane, 1959;Shaw y Shapiro, 2005;Singhal, 2013;Pittau et al, 2013).…”

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“…Ambas técnicas se alinean con los últimos desarrollos de la literatura comparada: valgan como ejemplo Pittau et al (2013), respecto del empleo de la metodología multinivel, y Tóth y Keller (2011), por lo que hace al empleo de un índice para aproximar la preferencia redistributiva de los ciudadanos. En la literatura española, en lo que conocemos, únicamente Jaime (2008) y Jaime y Sáez (2010) utilizan la metodología multinivel, en sendos estudios para los países europeos.…”

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“…En cuarto y último lugar, las estimaciones que se presentan y discuten en los siguientes apartados contrastan la variabilidad a lo largo del tiempo de las preferencias por la redistribución de los españoles, en consonancia con una reciente literatura (Georgiadis y Manning, 2012;Olivera, 2012;Pittau et al, 2013). Para el caso español, esta cuestión también la han tratado recientemente Iglesias et al (2013).…”

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