Understanding Preferences For Income Redestribution

Louise Keely and Chih Ming Tan

No 511, Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University from Department of Economics, Tufts University

Abstract: Recent research suggests that income redistribution preferences vary across identity groups. We employ a new pattern recognition technology, tree regression analysis, to uncover what these groups are. Using data from the General Social Survey, we present a new stylized fact that preferences for governmental provision of income redistribution vary systematically with race, gender, and class background. We explore the extent to which existing theories of income redistribution can explain our results, but conclude that current approaches do not fully explain the findings.

Date: 2005
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