Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

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In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners, families with children, people in ill health) and nationality of beneficiary (Swiss, Western European, others). Willingness to pay for redistribution increases with income and education, contradicting the conventional Meltzer-Richard (1981) model. The Prospect of Upward Mobility hypothesis [Hirschman and Rothschild (1973); Benabou and Ok (2001)] receives partial empirical support.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 0909

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions ; Field Experiments ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Taxation and Subsidies: Other
• Subject: income redistribution ; preferences ; willingness to pay ; discrete choice experiments ; stated choice ; economic well-being ; social mobility ; Einkommensverteilung ; Soziale Wohlfahrtsfunktion ; Willingness to pay ; Diskrete Entscheidung ; Lebensqualität ; Soziale Mobilität ; Schweiz

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Neustadt, Ilja ; Zweifel, Peter
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute
• (where): Zurich
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/76213
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET