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Petra Thiemann . Photo

Petra Thiemann

Associate senior lecturer

Petra Thiemann . Photo

Revisiting the effect of growing up in a recession on attitudes towards redistribution

Author

  • Jan Bietenbeck
  • Petra Thiemann

Summary, in English

Giuliano and Spilimbergo (2014) show that individuals who experienced a recession when young are more likely to favor redistribution in the short and long run. We revisit their analysis in three ways. First, we conduct a narrow replication in the General Social Survey and the World Values Survey; we successfully replicate the original results for outcomes that directly measure preferences for redistribution, but the results for other outcomes are less clear-cut. Second, adding recent survey waves yields results similar to the narrow replication. Third, a wide replication in a different dataset (International Social Survey Programme) corroborates the original results.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics
  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2023-01-17

Language

English

Pages

786-794

Publication/Series

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volume

38

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • preferences for redistribution
  • beliefs
  • recession
  • replication

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0883-7252