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Bellani Luna1,2,3, Fazio Andrea4, Scervini Francesco4
1Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" and Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Abstract:
Using new data from a three-wave panel survey administered in Germany between May 2020 and May 2021, this paper studies the impact of a negative shock affecting all strata of the population, such as the development of COVID-19, on preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in the severity of the infection rate at the county level, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the less our respondents expressed support for redistribution. We provide further evidence that this is not driven by a decrease in inequality aversion but might be driven by the individuals' level of trust.
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