Immigration vs. Poverty: Causal Impact on Demand for Redistribution in a Survey Experiment

103 Pages Posted: 8 Aug 2019 Last revised: 15 Jun 2022

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Andrea FM Martinangeli

Burgundy School of Business; University of Gothenburg - Centre for Collective Action (CeCAR)

Lisa Windsteiger

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

Date Written: August 7, 2019

Abstract

We investigate how demand for both the financing and the provision of redistributive policies is affected by information about immigration and poverty. Information about immigration has a positive impact on desired tax progressivity among low-income respondents and a negative one among higher income earners. Information about poverty has no impact. On the provision side, middle- and high-income respondents increase desired public education expenditure in response to poverty, while low-income respondents reduce desired education spending in response to immigration. These heterogeneities are consistent with protectionist reactions to immigration and poverty.

Keywords: immigration, poverty, redistribution, survey experiment

JEL Classification: D31, D63, H53, J15

Suggested Citation

Martinangeli, Andrea and Windsteiger, Lisa, Immigration vs. Poverty: Causal Impact on Demand for Redistribution in a Survey Experiment (August 7, 2019). Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2019-13, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3434292 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3434292

Andrea Martinangeli (Contact Author)

Burgundy School of Business ( email )

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University of Gothenburg - Centre for Collective Action (CeCAR) ( email )

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Gothenburg
Sweden

Lisa Windsteiger

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance ( email )

Marstallplatz 1
Munich, 80539
Germany

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