An experimental test of the validity of survey-measured political ideology

Maité Laméris, Richard Jong-A-Pin () and Rasmus Wiese

No 18-025, Working Papers CEB from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: We examine the predictive validity of survey-measured left-right politicalideology by testing whether this measure is able to explain observed choices regarding equality versus efficiency. We study this in a real-effort distributionexperiment, in which decision-makers allocate money equally or efficiently. Wedistinguish between decision-makers that receive ‘manna-from-heaven’ and decision-makers that have earned the money to be distributed in a real effort task. We find that, conditional on entitlement concerns, self-reported right-wing ideology significantly predicts preferences for efficiency. Reported left-wing ideology does not have predictive value in explaining preferences for equality.

Keywords: Political ideology; Survey measurement; Predictive validity; Distribution experiment; Real effort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 p.
Date: 2018-07-05
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