Calendrier du 14 juin 2022
Paris Migration and Demographic Economics Seminar (PMDES)
Du 14/06/2022 de 16:00 à 17:30
Salle R2.20, Campus Jourdan
CORTES Patricia (Boston University)
Globalization of Home Production and the Outcomes of Highly Skilled Native Women
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 14/06/2022 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-14
SMEETS Valerie (Aarhus University and CEPR)
High-Skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics
écrit avec Eunhee Lee and Jingting Fan
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 14/06/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
R2.01 PSE
BERMAN Yonatan (King's College London)
The Electoral Response to Inequality-Increasing Policy: Evidence from Israel, 2003-2006
We exploit panel microdata on voting in Israel to test the causal effect of inequality-increasing welfare and tax reforms on elections. Following a severe recession, the 2003 elected government cut welfare benefits and decreased tax progressivity. Low-income voters and parents to several children were negatively treated. High-income voters were positively treated. Using individual-level data for the 2003 and 2006 elections, we find that the reforms had no significant effect on voting behavior. Surprisingly, we document evidence for an increase in relative support for the incumbent government among negatively-treated groups. We explain our results by the salience of social identity, in contrast to standard models of voting behavior. The results provide a uniquely well-identified support to the literature on redistributive preferences.