Thursday, 9 August 2018

Variation in economic preferences around the world with implications for understanding inequality: Evidence from the Global Preferences Survey

a column by Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Vast inequalities exist within societies as well as across nations.

This column uses a new dataset to show that preferences vary substantially across and within societies, and that these differences are related to differences in economic outcomes at the individual and aggregate levels. The findings suggest that institutional reform should take into account how institutions may interact with preference differences.

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