Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution

By Mounir Karadja, Johanna Mollerstrom, David Seim. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017

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Experienced inequality and preferences for redistribution (2018, background): “People’s beliefs about their position in the income distribution have been shown to change people’s demand for redistribution (Cruces et al., 2013; Karadja et al., 2017).”
Labor market concerns and support for immigration (2020, background): “We also contribute to a broader literature that tries to understand the determinants and malleability of people’s policy preferences by experimentally manipulating beliefs (Alesina et al., 2017; Cruces et al., 2013; Gilens, 2001; Karadja et al., 2016; Kuklinski et al., 2000; Kuziemko et al., 2015).”
Designing Information Provision Experiments (2020, background): “…redistribution (Alesina et al., 2018c; Chen et al., 2016; Cruces et al., 2013; Fehr et al., 2021, 2019; Gärtner et al., 2019; Hoy and Mager, 2018; Karadja et al., 2017; Kuziemko et al., 2015), their support for government spending (Lergetporer et al., 2018a; Roth et al., 2021a), their views on…”