We are all "middle class" : Subjective perceptions of social class in Argentina
This paper studies the determinants of individual perceptions of social class. We use a purpose-built survey representative of the Greater Buenos Aires area in Argentina. The main finding is that three quarters of the population believes to be middle class, because of the simultaneous effect of a bi...
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I19-R120-10915-1693122024-08-29T20:08:12Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/169312 We are all "middle class" : Subjective perceptions of social class in Argentina Tetaz, Martín 2009-11 2009 2024-08-29T17:20:35Z en Ciencias Económicas This paper studies the determinants of individual perceptions of social class. We use a purpose-built survey representative of the Greater Buenos Aires area in Argentina. The main finding is that three quarters of the population believes to be middle class, because of the simultaneous effect of a bias in the self-perceived position in the income distribution and an overestimation of the level of income required to belong to the high class. Although low income individuals correctly self classify themselves as low class, high income agents systematically fail to differentiate themselves from those with average incomes. Interestingly, we find that education levels have a strong effect on self perceptions of social class, over and above its effect on income. Este artículo estudia los determinantes de la percepción de pertenencia a diferentes clases sociales. El resultado más importante es que debido a un sesgo en la percepción de la ubicación en la distribución del ingreso y al hecho de que la gente tiende a sobreestimar el ingreso necesario para acceder a la clase alta, tres cuartas partes de la población cree que pertenece a la clase media. Aunque los sujetos de bajos ingresos correctamente se auto clasifican como de clase baja, los de ingresos altos sistemáticamente fallan en marcar las diferencias de clase que tienen con aquellos de ingresos medios. De manera interesante, la educación funciona como un pasaporte para escapar a las clases más bajas, por razones que exceden su efecto sobre los ingresos. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf |
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This paper studies the determinants of individual perceptions of social class. We use a purpose-built survey representative of the Greater Buenos Aires area in Argentina. The main finding is that three quarters of the population believes to be middle class, because of the simultaneous effect of a bias in the self-perceived position in the income distribution and an overestimation of the level of income required to belong to the high class. Although low income individuals correctly self classify themselves as low class, high income agents systematically fail to differentiate themselves from those with average incomes. Interestingly, we find that education levels have a strong effect on self perceptions of social class, over and above its effect on income. |
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We are all "middle class" : Subjective perceptions of social class in Argentina |
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