Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302723 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11238
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran an incentivized experiment with a large representative sample of the Spanish population. Our participants took six decisions that elicited their social preferences. Their choices could result in a different total surplus and different distributions of the surplus between the subject and an anonymous counterpart. In our sample, social preferences are unrelated to political support for distributive policies. The main correlates for support of redistribution are the beliefs concerning the importance of effort versus luck for success (fairness), the trust in government institutions (effectiveness) and the perceived importance of the poverty problem (need).
Subjects: 
elicitation of social preferences
income distribution and politics
trust in government institutions
JEL: 
C93
D31
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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