Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution

By Erzo F. P. Luttmer. Journal of Political Economy, 2001

1,037 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b203dacc1cb40eca4502836b02f2c1316394454d

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Demography

In Economics and Econometrics

In Gender Studies

Citations in the corpus

The Changing Color of Welfare? How Whites’ Attitudes toward Latinos Influence Support for Welfare1 (2004, background): “The political rhetoric and media images that surround the public debate about welfare have often been inflammatory, derogatory, and racially coded.”
Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (2012, background): “3 Fong (2001), Luttmer (2001), Rottemberg (2002), Alesina and Glaeser (2004) and Alesina and Angeletos (2005) study the effect of altruistic and fairness concerns on attitudes towards redistribution.”
Strong Reciprocity and the Roots of Human Morality (2008, background): “As is well known from decision theory, this assumption allows us to represent the individual’s choice behavior as though it were the product of conscious maximization, whatever the underlying decision mechanism (Kreps, 1988).”
Egalitarianism and International Investment (2011, neutral): “…political demands and a fixed pie of community resources, individuals in a fractionalized society might worry that their public contributions will benefit disproportionately members of groups with which they do not identify (e.g., Poterba, 1997; Alesina, Baqir, and Easterly, 1999; Luttmer, 2001).”
Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe1 (2019, methodology): “Using individual data for the U.S., Luttmer (2001) shows evidence for “group loyalty effects”, namely that support for redistribution increases if members of the respondent’s own ethnic group are over-represented among welfare recipients.”
Inequality and public good provision: An experimental analysis (2008, background): “Alesina et al. (1999) find a significant association between such measures and expenditures on public goods; in addition, Luttmer (2001) demonstrates evidence of racial group loyalty in support for social spending.”
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration (2019, neutral): “These findings are consistent with the large literature showing that ethnic diversity is associated with lower public goods provision and with more limited redistribution (e.g. Alesina et al., 1999; Beach and Jones, 2017; Luttmer, 2001).”
Who Trusts Others (2000, background): “Glaeser, Sheinkman and Shleifer (1995), Poterba (1996), Luttmer (1997) and Goldin and Katz (1999) discuss the e¤ects of racial fragmentation for several speci…c policy issues.”