Calendrier du 18 mai 2018
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 18/05/2018 de 12:45 à 13:45
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ZHUANG Maiting (PSE)
TV shows, social media and anti-Japanese sentiment in China
EPCI (Economie politique du changement institutionnel) Seminar
Du 18/05/2018 de 11:00 à 12:30
PSE Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris Salle R1-16
RUEDA DAVID (University of Oxford)
Insurance and Redistribution: An Experiental Approach
Most distributive theories in political economy understand individuals to be motivated by material self-interest, often approximated by their current positions in the income distribution. It has become increasingly common, however, to also conceptualise material self-interest inter-temporally. This approach extends the more direct focus on effects of contemporary relative income (as in Romer 1975 and Meltzer and Richard 1981) and opens the door to arguments about insurance and risk (as in Sinn 1995; Moene and Wallerstein 2003; Iversen and Soskice 2001; Rehm 2009; Mares 2003), and about social mobility and life-cycle profiles (Rueda and Stegmueller 2018; Alesina and Giuliano 2011; Haider and Solon 2006; Benabou and Ok 2001). Distinguishing between redistribution (in the present) and insurance (against something that could happen in the future), however, is empirically challenging. In this paper, we propose that the effects of insurance motivations on support for redistribution are income dependent. We distinguish our argument from other theoretical alternatives and explore its implications through a laboratory experiment designed to separate the influence of redistribution, insurance and altruistic motivations that we conducted through the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) in the United Kingdom and Chile.