Replication data for: Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Erzo F. P. Luttmer; Monica Singhal
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Project Citation:
Luttmer, Erzo F. P., and Singhal, Monica. Replication data for: Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114752V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate culture from the economic and institutional environment ("context"), we relate immigrants' redistributive preferences to the average preference in their birth countries. We find a strong positive relationship that is robust to rich controls for economic factors and cannot easily be explained by selective migration. This effect
is as large as that of own household income and appears stronger for those less assimilated into the destination country. Immigrants from high-preference countries are more likely to vote for more pro-redistribution parties. The effect of culture persists strongly into the
second generation. (JEL H23, Z13)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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