Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality

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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.

Type of resource	text
Date created	August 12, 2021

Author	Fehr, Dietmar
Author	Mollerstrom, Johanna
Author	Perez-Truglia, Ricardo
Organizer of meeting	Exley, Christine
Organizer of meeting	Marquina, Alejandro Martínez
Organizer of meeting	Niederle, Muriel
Organizer of meeting	Roth, Alvin
Organizer of meeting	Vesterlund, Lise

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/qr147pm6472
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/qr147pm6472

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Preferred citation: Fehr, D., Mollerstrom, J., and Perez-Truglia, R. (2022). Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/qr147pm6472

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