| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21529 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21529 |
| Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative Explanations | |
| Vivekinan Ashok; Ilyana Kuziemko; Ebonya Washington | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-09-07 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Despite the large increases in economic inequality since 1970, American survey respondents exhibit no increase in support for redistribution, in contrast to the predictions from standard theories of redistributive preferences. We replicate these results but further demonstrate substantial heterogeneity by demographic groups. In particular, the two groups who have most moved against income redistribution are the elderly and African-Americans. We find little evidence that these subgroup trends are explained by relative economic gains or growing cultural conservatism, two common explanations. We further show that the elderly trend is uniquely American, at least relative to other developed countries with comparable survey data. While we are unable to provide definitive evidence on the cause of these two groups' declining redistributive support, we offer additional correlations which may offer fruitful directions for future research on the topic. One story consistent with the data on elderly trends is that older Americans worry that redistribution will come at their expense, in particular via cuts to Medicare. We find that the elderly have grown increasingly opposed to government provision of health insurance and that controlling for this tendency explains about 40% of their declining support for redistribution. For blacks, controlling for their declining support of race-targeted aid explains nearly 45% of their differential decline in redistributive preferences (raising the question of why support for race-targeted aid has fallen during a period when black economic catch-up to whites has stalled). |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21529 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579204 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Vivekinan Ashok,Ilyana Kuziemko,Ebonya Washington. Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative Explanations. 2015. |
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