Social Identity and Redistributive Preferences: A Survey

Joan Costa-i-Font and Frank Cowell ()
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No 4440, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Social identity has become accepted as a key concept underpinning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. It is important in explaining attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. We examine how economic theory measures social identity and its effects on preferences towards redistribution, social solidarity and redistributive institutions. Empirical evidence indicates that social identity carries weight in explaining the presence of social preferences and attitudes towards redistributive institutions.

Keywords: social identity; preferences for redistribution; inequality; diversity; redistributive institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H10 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: SOCIAL IDENTITY AND REDISTRIBUTIVE PREFERENCES: A SURVEY (2015)
Working Paper: Social identity and redistributive preferences: a survey (2012)
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