Exploring the absolutist vs relativist perception of poverty using a cross-country questionnaire survey

Luca Corazzini, Lucio Esposito () and Francesca Majorano

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, vol. 32, issue 2, 273-283

Abstract: Questionnaires eliciting the absolutist vs relativist perception of poverty are administered to 1941 undergraduate students in eight countries - Bolivia, Brazil, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. We find that the perception of poverty expressed by a large fraction of respondents exhibits both absolutist and relativist concerns, with the former components prevailing over the latter. High-income countries exhibit a significantly more pronounced relativist attitude. Personal characteristics such as past experience of material hardship and relative standard of living play a germane role in shaping respondents' views.

Keywords: Poverty; perceptions; Cross-country; questionnaire; survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Working Paper: Exploring the Absolutist Vs Relativist Perception of Poverty Using a Cross-Country Questionnaire Survey (2009)
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