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| Title: | | Aspirations of the middle class: Voting on redistribution and status concerns  |
| Authors: | | Konrad, Kai A. Morath, Florian |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers // Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Schwerpunkt Märkte und Politik: Forschungsprofessur & Projekt The Future of Fiscal Federalism SP II 2011-102 |
| Abstract: | | This paper analyzes the role of narrowly selfish and other-regarding preferences for the median voter in a Meltzer-Richard (1981) framework. We use computerized and real human co-players to distinguish between these sets of motivations. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as status concerns of the median voter who tends to keep distance to the low-income group, whereas inequity aversion does not play a role in the political economy context. |
| Subjects: | | Redistribution other-regarding preferences median voter experiments |
| JEL: | | C91 D03 D72 D78 H20 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des WZB Discussion Papers, Forschungsprofessur & Projekt "The Future of Fiscal Federalism"
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