Inequality-Aversion and Income Mobility: A Direct Test

By Andrew E. Clark. 2003

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Preferences for redistribution: an empirical analysis over 33 countries (2011, background): “Then, there may be a “preference for inequality” [40] linked to the fact that a majority of voters expect to experience upward mobility in the future, and hence a net cost of redistribution [13, 39].”
Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal? (2009, unknown): “income inequality and measures of subjective well-being (see Clark, 2003, and the”
Inequality and Happiness (2012, unknown): “Clark (2003) uses only full time employed respondents of the BHPS and fi nds a positive correlation between individuals’ well-being and the reference group income inequality.”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “The estimated value of γ in the first 11 waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is positive (Clark, 2003), as is that in the first five waves of the WVS (Rozer and Kraaykamp, 2013).”
Inequality and happiness: Insights from Latin America (2006, methodology): “Clark [5] uses data from 80 the British Household Panel Survey (from 1991 to 2002), and finds that regional”
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction (2007, methodology): “The studies by Corneo and Grüner (2001) and Fong (2001) do not explicitly address the question of whether individuals are inequality averse.”
Life Satisfaction and Income Inequality (2011, unknown): “Clark, A. E. (2003): “Inequality aversion and income mobility: a direct test,” Delta Working Papers, (11). Clark, A. E., and A. J. Oswald (1994): “Unhappiness and unemployment,” Economic Journal, 104(424), 648–659.”
Do we really know what makes us happy A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being (2008, methodology): “Clark, Frijters, and Shields (2007) provide a comprehensive review of the relationship between income and SWB, and so we provide only a brief overview here.”
A glimpse through the veil of ignorance: equality of opportunity and support for redistribution (2010, result): “Alternative ways of looking at these data are possible, however, and evidence from other studies (Clark, 2003; Schwarze and Härpfer, 2004) appears somewhat contradictory.”