TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fehr,Dietmar
AU  - Mollerstrom,Johanna
AU  - Perez-Truglia,Ricardo
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - December 2019; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans. We measure how individuals form perceptions of their ranks in the national and global income distributions, and how those perceptions relate to their national and global policy preferences. We find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world's income distribution, but that correcting those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w26555
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26555
ER  -