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Individual attitudes towards trade: Stolper-Samuelson revisited

This paper studies to what extent individuals form their preferences towards trade policies along the lines of the Stolper-Samuelson logic. We employ a novel international survey data set with an extensive coverage of high-, middle-, and low-income countries, address a subtle methodological shortcoming in previous studies and condition on aspects of individualenlightenment. We find statistically significant and economically large Stolper-Samuelson effects. In the United States, being high-skilled increases an individual's probability of favoring free trade by up to twelve percentage points, other things equal. In Ethiopia, the effect amounts to eight percentage points, but in exactly the opposite direction.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Neoclassical Models of Trade
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Thema
Trade policy
Voter preferences
Political economy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Jäkel, Ina C.
Smolka, Marcel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
(wo)
Tübingen
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-56580
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Jäkel, Ina C.
  • Smolka, Marcel
  • University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

Entstanden

  • 2011

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