Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment
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, dictat...
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| author | Demel, Simona Barr, Abigail Miller, Luis Ubeda, Paloma |
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| description | 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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| spelling | nottingham-511182020-05-04T19:37:11Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51118/ Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment Demel, Simona Barr, Abigail Miller, Luis Ubeda, Paloma 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. Cambridge University Press 2018-05-21 Article PeerReviewed Demel, Simona, Barr, Abigail, Miller, Luis and Ubeda, Paloma (2018) Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment. Journal of Experimental Political Science . ISSN 2052-2630 Economic status; Lab-in-the-field experiments; Left-right scale; Redistribution https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-science/article/commitment-to-political-ideology-is-a-luxury-only-students-can-afford-a-distributive-justice-experiment/7BFBD0DB67852EB6949A0D5812A66664 doi:10.1017/XPS.2018.14 doi:10.1017/XPS.2018.14 |
| spellingShingle | Economic status; Lab-in-the-field experiments; Left-right scale; Redistribution Demel, Simona Barr, Abigail Miller, Luis Ubeda, Paloma Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment |
| title | Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment |
| title_full | Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment |
| title_fullStr | Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment |
| title_short | Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment |
| title_sort | commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment |
| topic | Economic status; Lab-in-the-field experiments; Left-right scale; Redistribution |
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