Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235390 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9020
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans. We measure how individuals form perceptions of their ranks in the national and global income distributions, and how those perceptions relate to their national and global policy preferences. We find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution, but that correcting those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality.
Subjects: 
(global) inequality
redistribution
survey
experiment
JEL: 
C83
C91
D63
D72
H23
H24
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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