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Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality

2022; American Economic Association; Volume: 14; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1257/pol.20200343

ISSN

1945-7812

Autores

Dietmar Fehr, Johanna Möllerström, Ricardo Pérez-Truglia,

Tópico(s)

Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Resumo

Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conducted a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans. We measure how individuals form perceptions of their ranks in the national and global income distributions and how these perceptions relate to their national and global policy preferences. We find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution but that correcting those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality. (JEL D12, D31, D63, H23)

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