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Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution
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- Karadja, Mounir (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Nationalekonomiska institutionen
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- Möllerström, Johanna (author)
- Humboldt Univ, Berlin, Germany.;German Inst Econ Res DIW, Berlin, Germany.;Res Inst Ind Econ, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Seim, David (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Nationalekonomiska institutionen,CEPR, and Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden,Res Inst Ind Econ, Stockholm, Sweden.;Stockholm Univ, Dept Econ, CEPR, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- 2017
- 2017
- English.
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In: Review of Economics and Statistics. - 0034-6535 .- 1530-9142. ; 99:2, s. 201-212
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- We use a tailor-made survey on a Swedish sample to investigate how individuals' relative income affects their demand for redistribution. We first document that a majority misperceive their position in the income distribution and believe that they are poorer, relative to others, than they actually are. We then inform a subsample about their true relative income and find that individuals who are richer than they initially thought demand less redistribution. This result is driven by individuals with prior right-of-center political preferences who view taxes as distortive and believe that effort, rather than luck, drives individual economic success.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
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