Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
vol. 14,
no. 4, November 2022
(pp. 232-68)
Abstract
Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conducted 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 these 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.Citation
Fehr, Dietmar, Johanna Mollerstrom, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. 2022. "Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14 (4): 232-68. DOI: 10.1257/pol.20200343Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
- D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
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