Yours, mine & ours - The role of gender and (equivalence) income in preferences for redistribution and public spending

Tina Haußen ()
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Tina Haußen: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, School of Economics and Business Administration

No 2014-033, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: Using survey data from the International Social Survey Program, we investigate how individual preferences for redistribution and public spending are affected by gender, income and expected future living standard. Applying the concept of the equivalence income, we find that some respondents obtain a higher living standard when living in a multiperson household - due to sharing income within the household - compared to the living standard they could obtain when living as a single. Our results suggest that these individuals may precautionary favor an increase in redistribution and public spending as to insure themselves against the ever present risk of future downward mobility e.g. in case of separation, divorce or widowhood. As on average women obtain a lower income than men, this situation is more likely to apply to women. In that sense our analysis may represent a further step towards understanding the gender gap in preferences for redistributive spending.

Keywords: gender preference gap; public spending; governmental redistribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D70 H50 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-16
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