Your Place in the World - Relative Income and Global Inequality

Dietmar Fehr, Johanna Mollerstrom and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

No 9020, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

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.

Keywords: (global) inequality; redistribution; survey; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 C91 D63 D72 H23 H24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Journal Article: Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality (2022)
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