Eliciting preferences for redistribution across domains: A study on wealth, education, and health

Macchia, Lucía; Ariely, Dan

doi:10.1111/asap.12279

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“…These results support findings of prior research showing that people might desire more egalitarian distribution in the domains of health and education compared to income or wealth (e.g., Howarth et al, 2019;Macchia & Ariely, 2021). More broadly, these results speak in favour of recent empirical evidence (García-Sánchez et al, 2018 and theoretical proposals (LSE, 2018) that point to economic inequality as a multidimensional phenomenon that goes beyond income or wealth domains.…”

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“…To our knowledge, very few studies to date have compared people's concerns about economic inequality in different domains. As an exception, Macchia and Ariely (2021) asked participants to imagine that they were moving to a different country and that their place within the income distribution would be randomly assigned. Next, they had to indicate how they would distribute wealth and good educational and good health resources, across income quintiles.…”

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“…On the other hand, how fair is it that someone suffering from cancer cannot afford medical treatment? Recent evidence suggests people might be more concerned about economic inequality regarding health and education than income/wealth disparities (Macchia & Ariely, 2021). Importantly, greater concerns about inequality may lead to higher support of collective actions to reduce it (Jo & Choi, 2019).…”

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Concerns About Inequality in Health, Education and Income Jointly Predict Collective Actions

Soler-Martínez¹,

García-Sánchez²,

Willis³

2023

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Introduction: Income inequality is often tolerated and justified, but when it brings about disparities in other domains of life (e.g., health or education), it may be seen with different eyes. In this research, we aimed to explore concerns regarding economic inequality in health, education, and income, and its relationship to supporting collective actions to reduce inequality. Method: We used survey data (N = 20,204, 18 countries) from the Latinobarometer 2020. We conducted descriptive analyses, latent class analyses, and analyses of multilevel linear regression to test our hypothesis. Results: We found that people were more concerned about health access and education opportunities than income inequality. We also identified two classes of people: one class concerned about education and health and the other unconcerned about inequality in any domain. In addition, results showed that all concerns and class membership predicted greater support of collective actions to reduce inequality. Conclusions: These preliminary findings suggest that concerns about education and health disparities may serve to increase awareness of overall inequality and mobilise the public.

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Concerns About Inequality in Health, Education and Income Jointly Predict Collective Actions

Soler-Martínez¹,

García-Sánchez²,

Willis³

2023

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“…One of the conclusions of this research is that the perception of inequality is a multidimensional construct that includes different and complementary views of inequality. Further research could explore how PEI is entrenched with inequalities in other domains, such as health, education, political participation, raising concerns about unfairness, and support for redistribution (Howarth et al, 2019; Macchia & Ariely, 2021).…”

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Perceived Economic Inequality Measures and Their Association With Objective Inequality and Redistributive Preferences

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Abstract. Perceptions of economic inequality (PEI) play a central role in people’s responses to inequality. We aim to examine the consistency between different PEI measures (income gaps, diagrammatic figures, experienced downward and upward disparities), their relationship with objective inequality, and their association with redistributive preferences. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2019 ( N = 34,387, 22 countries), we performed multilevel regression analyses and found that PEI indicators were weakly and positively correlated, suggesting that they represent different dimensions of the same construct. Furthermore, objective inequality was not related to PEI measures. Finally, all PEI measures were positively associated with support for redistribution, except for experienced upward inequality. We discuss the multidimensional nature of PEI and its implications on redistributive preferences.

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“…One commonly examined basis of categorization is income, as in studies of income-related health inequality aversion, (13) ideal health distributions across income quintiles (12) or views on life expectancy differences between the rich and the poor. (11) These provide valuable insights, but they do not re ect the diversity of categorizations actually employed in health inequality research.…”

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When is health inequality acceptable? Appraisals of inevitability, complexity and causal explanations

Bridger,

Tufte-Hewett,

Comerford

et al. 2023

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Background: Health inequalities are typically presented with respect to separate groupings or bases of categorization, such as income-related health inequality or life expectancy by education. We sought to characterize the cognitive consequences of presenting health inequality by bases of categorization. Methods:Across two studies (N = 1,321), UK and US participants made a number of judgments about life expectancy differences (including how acceptable they are and whether they should be addressed) attributed to distinct bases of categorization: income, education, social class, neighbourhood, lifestyle choices and genetics. Results:Health inequality was perceived as least acceptable when attributed to the four socioeconomic bases, and most acceptable for lifestyle choices and genetics. Six appraisal dimensions – complexity, malleability, inevitability, extent driven by biological, psychological and sociocultural causes - varied with basis of categorization and predicted views on health inequality. These dimensions could explain the majority (47-57%) of the drop in acceptability for health inequality attributed to neighbourhood, social class and education differences relative to a condition with no categorization. Conclusions:These findings illustrate for the first time some of the causal explanations and affiliated inferences that underpin views on health inequality, and the corresponding consequences for communicating about health and health inequalities.

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Eliciting preferences for redistribution across domains: A study on wealth, education, and health

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Concerns About Inequality in Health, Education and Income Jointly Predict Collective Actions

Concerns About Inequality in Health, Education and Income Jointly Predict Collective Actions

Perceived Economic Inequality Measures and Their Association With Objective Inequality and Redistributive Preferences

When is health inequality acceptable? Appraisals of inevitability, complexity and causal explanations

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