Published in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 7139
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1 Online-Ressource (36 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3237290
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 09, 2018 erstellt
Description:
We examine the predictive validity of survey-measured left-right political ideology by testing whether this measure is able to explain observed choices regarding equality versus efficiency. We study this in a real-effort distribution experiment, in which decision-makers allocate money equally or efficiently. We distinguish 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