Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution
Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution
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群体忠诚度和重新分配的品味
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
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作者：
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
人际偏好依赖于他人的特征的偏好通常很难从可观察到的个人行为中推断出来。作为一种替代方法，本文使用调查数据来研究人际偏好。我表明，自我报告的福利支出的态度不仅取决于金融自身利益，但也由人际偏好。这些人际偏好的特点是负面的曝光效应个人减少他们的福利支持率在他们的社区和种族群体的忠诚度增加他们的支持福利支出的份额本地受助人从自己的种族群体上升。这些发现有助于解释为什么在种族异质的州，福利水平相对较低。
Interpersonal preferences—preferences that depend on the characteristics of others—are typically hard to infer from observable individual behavior. As an alternative approach, this paper uses survey data to investigate interpersonal preferences. I show that self‐reported attitudes toward welfare spending are determined not only by financial self‐interest but also by interpersonal preferences. These interpersonal preferences are characterized by a negative exposure effect—individuals decrease their support for welfare as the welfare recipiency rate in their community rises—and racial group loyalty—individuals increase their support for welfare spending as the share of local recipients from their own racial group rises. These findings help to explain why levels of welfare benefits are relatively low in racially heterogeneous states.