Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment |
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Affiliation: | University of Wyoming, Department 3985, 1000 E. University Ave, Laramie, WY, 82071, United States;School of Economics, Henan University, East-6, 85 Minglun Street, Minglun Campus, 475001, Kaifeng, China;Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China;School of Analytics, Finance, and Economics Southern, Illinois University, Carbondale, United States |
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Abstract: | We investigate how demand for both the financing and the provision of redistributive policies is affected by information about immigration and poverty. Information about immigration has a positive impact on desired tax progressivity among low-income respondents and a negative one among higher income earners. Information about poverty has no impact. On the provision side, middle- and high-income respondents increase desired public education expenditure in response to poverty, while low-income respondents reduce desired education spending in response to immigration. These heterogeneities are consistent with protectionist reactions to immigration and poverty. |
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Keywords: | Immigration Poverty Redistribution Survey experiment |
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