Calendrier du 27 octobre 2017
Casual Friday Development Seminar - Brown Bag Seminar
Du 27/10/2017 de 12:45 à 13:45
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
OLCKERS Matthew (PSE)
Friend-based targeting
EPCI (Economie politique du changement institutionnel) Seminar
Du 27/10/2017 de 11:00 à 12:30
MSE - PARIS 1- SALLE 116
BECKER Maja (Université de Toulouse )
Mind the Income Gaps? The lasting effect of information on redistributive preferences
Individuals reject economic inequality if they believe it to result from unequal opportunities. This paper argues income gaps between inborn groups, such as gender or race, serve people as an indication of unequal opportunities. Findings from a survey experiment show Americans underestimate these gaps. When confronted with accurate information participants correct their beliefs and adjust redistributive preferences. A follow-up survey finds these effects to last for over one year and to induce the same preference changes across the ideological divide. In sum, this paper contributes to political economy scholarship that links individual preferences to objective economic reality. Focusing on income gaps offers new ways to explore the political consequences of changes in the income distribution.