Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities

By A. Alesina, Eliana La Ferrara. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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Gender Gaps in Policy Making: Evidence from Direct Democracy in Switzerland (2008, background): “…as values, attitudes and beliefs, matter and differ between men and women, gender gaps persist even when socio-economic characteristics are kept constant (see e.g. Fong, 2001; Alesina and Ferrara, 2005; Luttmer and Singhal, 2011; and Alesina and Giuliano, 2011). government expenditures than men.”
Inequality of opportunity in Italy (2010, background): “1 Finally, social attitudes towards redistributive policies may be affected by the knowledge, or the perception, of the origin of income inequalities [1]: existing surveys show that most people judge income inequalities arising from different levels of effort as less objectionable than those due to ”
Preferences for redistribution: an empirical analysis over 33 countries (2011, methodology): “22 The second specification of social mobility (column [6]) has a more straightforward interpretation.”
Inequality and Happiness: Are Americans and Europeans Different? (2004, neutral): “Recent empirical work on the demand for redistribution includes Alesina and La Ferrara (2000), Ravallion and Loshkin (2000), Corneo (2000) and Corneo and Gruner (2000).”
Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity (2013, methodology): “Moreover, as shown by Alesina and La Ferrara (2005) using US data, in general, people who believe that they live in a land of equal opportunities for all do not look favourably on government redistribution.”
Why Have Women Become Left-Wing? The Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage (2002, background): “…and 39 percent of women supported abortion on request by the woman (question was asked in 1977–2000), and that 72 percent of men and 75 percent of women favored the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) (question asked in 1982), authors’ calculations. women in exchange for sex and for access to children.”
Inequality of opportunity in the land of opportunities, 1968–2001 (2009, neutral): “Another interesting contribution provided by Bourguignon et al. [8] turns to the Brazilian case and decomposes the share of total observable inequality 1Alesina and La Ferrara [2] present a study on individual preferences for redistribution in the U.S. Alesina and Glaeser [1] review deeply the idea ”