Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?

Fil: Delic, Diego. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Delic, Diego
Otros Autores: Pérez-Truglia, Ricardo Nicolás
Formato: Tesis Tesis de maestría updatedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía 2022
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10908/19228
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spelling I37-R143-10908-192282025-01-20T15:20:27Z Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization? Delic, Diego Pérez-Truglia, Ricardo Nicolás Fil: Delic, Diego. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina. This paper explores how identity shapes feelings about economic shocks and support to public policies. To do so, we study how people’s feelings about negative shocks vary when they discover some characteristic of the individual that receives the shock. Then, we examine how these feelings are associated with support to public policies. Private and third sector employees tend to feel better about someone being laid-off if they find out that this person worked in the public sector and that public sector employment has been performing relatively better than the others. Women tend to feel better about an individual suffering a wage-cut if they find out that the individual is a man and that there is a wage gap in the labour market that favours men. We also find that people’s feelings can be associated with support to public policies. Respondents feeling better about the negative shocks are more likely to support policies reducing public employment and cutting men wages. In this way, rational choices based on group identity seem to complement well documented biases such as motivated reasoning and confirmation bias to explain polarization in policy preferences. Keywords: Identity Economics; Polarization; Shocks; Satisfaction. 2022-06-14T20:23:14Z 2022-06-14T20:23:14Z 2022-01 Tesis info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis info:ar-repo/semantics/tesis de maestría info:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersion Delic, D. (2022). Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?. [Tesis de maestría, Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía]. Repositorio Digital San Andrés. http://hdl.handle.net/10908/19228 http://hdl.handle.net/10908/19228 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf application/pdf Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía
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title_short Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?
title_full Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?
title_fullStr Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?
title_full_unstemmed Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?
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