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Commitment to Political Ideology is a Luxury Only Students Can Afford: A Distributive Justice Experiment

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  • Demel, Simona
  • Barr, Abigail
  • Miller, Luis
  • Ubeda, Paloma

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Using a political-frame-free, lab-in-the-field experiment, we investigate the associations between employment status, self-reported political ideology, and preferences for redistribution. The experiment consists of a real-effort task, followed by a four-player dictator game. In one treatment, dictator game initial endowments depend on participants’ performance in the real-effort task, i.e., they are earned, in the other, they are randomly determined. We find that being employed or unemployed is associated with revealed redistributive preferences, while the political ideology of the employed and unemployed is not. In contrast, the revealed redistributive preferences of students are strongly associated with their political ideologies. The employed and right-leaning students redistribute earnings less than windfalls, the unemployed, and left-leaning students make no such distinction.

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  • Demel, Simona & Barr, Abigail & Miller, Luis & Ubeda, Paloma, 2019. "Commitment to Political Ideology is a Luxury Only Students Can Afford: A Distributive Justice Experiment," Journal of Experimental Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(1), pages 33-42, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jexpos:v:6:y:2019:i:01:p:33-42_00
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    1. Fosgaard, Toke R. & Hansen, Lars G. & Wengström, Erik, 2019. "Cooperation, framing, and political attitudes," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 158(C), pages 416-427.
    2. Michailidou, Georgia & Rotondi, Valentina, 2019. "I'd lie for you," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 118(C), pages 181-192.
    3. Georgia Michailidou & Hande Erkut, 2022. "Lie O'Clock: Experimental Evidence on Intertemporal Lying Preferences," Working Papers 20220076, New York University Abu Dhabi, Department of Social Science, revised Apr 2022.
    4. Barr, Abigail & Miller, Luis, 2020. "The effect of education, income inequality and merit on inequality acceptance," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    5. Santamaría, Diego & Miller, Luis & Ubeda, Paloma & Padilla-Angulo, Laura, 2023. "Determinants of inequality acceptability in a representative sample of the Spanish population," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 106(C).

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