Social preferences, self-interest, and the demand for redistribution

By Christina M. Fong. 2001

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

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Fairness and Redistribution: U.S. Versus Europe (2003, neutral): “Similar results are reported by Fong (2002) using a different data set for the United States.”
A glimpse through the veil of ignorance: equality of opportunity and support for redistribution (2010, background): “Fong (2001) and Alesina and LaFerrara (2005) show that those who think that “getting ahead in life” mostly takes effort and talent, generally oppose redistribution more that those who believe it is chiefly determined by luck and help of others.”
Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State (2012, background): “Esping-Andersen’s (1990) three types of welfare regimes—liberal, corporatist, and social-democratic—are often singled out as a possible determinants of varying support for social policies (Arts and Gelissen 2001; Bean and Papadakis 1998; Gelissen 2002; Jaeger 2009).”
Conditional cooperation: Behavioral regularities from the lab and the field and their policy implications (2006, result): “3 Solidarity and support for the welfare state Observers of welfare state policies (e.g., Wax 2000; Fong 2001; Fong et al. 2005; Lindbeck et al. 1999) point out that many people hold reciprocity norms that are akin to the conditional cooperation observed in our experiments.”
Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution (2010, positive): “thermore, Guillaud (2008), conducting a cross-section analysis of survey data from four EU countries, shows that poorer and less educated individuals are more in favor of redistribution.”
How context matters: A survey based experiment on distributive justice (2007, background): “In an excellent survey on positive and normative theories of justice James Konow (2003) examines this contrast describing the principles that are 2See also Fong (2001). behind these concepts: the Need Principle and the E¢ ciency Principle.”
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction (2007, positive): “Fong (2001) analyzes data from the 1998 Gallup Poll Social Audit Survey.”