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Social preferences and redistributive politics

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2023
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Fehr, E., Epper, T., & Senn, J. (2023). Social preferences and redistributive politics (No. 339; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have put redistribution on the political agenda. In this paper, we take advantage of Swiss direct democracy, where people voted several times on strongly redistributive policies in national plebiscites, to study the link between social preferences and a behaviorally validated measure of support for redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Using a novel nonparametric Bayesian clustering algorithm, we uncover the existence of three fundamentally distinct prefer

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Working paper series / Department of Economics

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Working Paper

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Social preferences, altruism, inequality aversion, preference heterogeneity, demand for redistribution, Altruismus, Soziale Ungleichheit, Aversion, Politisches Verhalten, Schweiz

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2023-08

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2020-01-29

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78

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1664-705X

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Revised version ; Former title: Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics. Also published as iRisk Working Paper No. 2023-05.

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Green

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merlin-id:19125

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Fehr, E., Epper, T., & Senn, J. (2023). Social preferences and redistributive politics (No. 339; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

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