Inequality and redistributive preferences: Comparative analysis with panel data from the World Values Survey (1990–2018)

IF 1.1 Q3 ECONOMICS

Research in Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI:10.1016/j.rie.2025.101102

Juan Ignacio Martín-Legendre, Pablo Castellanos-García, José Manuel Sánchez-Santos

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Abstract

Different views on inequality and preferences in income redistribution are instrumental in shaping tax-and-transfers redistributive policies. While the Median Voter Theorem indicates that increasing inequality should lead to an expansion of redistributive policies, the vast differences between countries in this regard seem to reveal this as a much more issue. In order to explore it further, we examine trends in the World Values Survey, which provides a heterogeneous sample of 88 countries for the period 1990–2018. Applying estimation methods for panel data, our results point to each country economic development –measured as per capita income– and perceived rather than actual inequality, as well as cultural factors associated with a country's geographical region, as the main determinants to explain redistribution preferences.

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不平等与再分配偏好：与1990-2018年世界价值观调查面板数据的比较分析

对收入再分配中的不平等和偏好的不同看法有助于形成税收和转移支付再分配政策。虽然中位数选民定理表明，不平等的加剧应该导致再分配政策的扩大，但各国在这方面的巨大差异似乎表明，这是一个更大的问题。为了进一步探讨这一点，我们研究了世界价值观调查的趋势，该调查提供了1990年至2018年期间88个国家的异质样本。应用面板数据的估计方法，我们的结果指出，每个国家的经济发展（以人均收入衡量）、感知而非实际的不平等，以及与国家地理区域相关的文化因素，是解释再分配偏好的主要决定因素。

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Research in Economics ECONOMICS-

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