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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014 - Preprint

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …

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Civic capital and support for the welfare state

Cerqueti, Roy; Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco - 2017

We model how the interplay between tax surveillance institutions and civic capital shapes taxpayers’ support for welfare state. We show that, when tax surveillance is tight, rational civic-minded individuals express greater support for welfare spending than uncivic ones. We provide empirical...

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - 2012

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - 2016

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The Effect of Social Norms Estimation on Non-Strategic Giving : Controlling for the Role of Numeric Anchoring and Extra Monetary Prospects

Senci, Maximiliano - 2017

Making participants estimate the prescriptive norm increases generosity in a Dictator Game (DG). Authors have interpreted this result in terms of Norm Focus Theory (Cialdini et al., 1990). Nonetheless, non-normative explanations have not been discarded yet. We replicated the effect of...

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Economic growth in the Potterian economy

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel C. - 2010

We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...

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Social norms and welfare state dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörg - 2003

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We...

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Trust, welfare states and income equality : what causes what?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2013

The cross-country correlation between social trust and income equality is well documented, but few studies examine the direction of causality. We show theoretically that by facilitating cooperation, trust may increase efficiency and lead to more equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality...

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …

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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany

Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023

Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific … rich, support for redistribution in Germany is not motivated by the urge to castigate this group for their affluence …

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