Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?

Autores
Delic, Diego
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
tesis de maestría
Estado
versión corregida
Colaborador/a o director/a de tesis
Pérez-Truglia, Ricardo Nicolás
Descripción
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.
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
Condiciones de uso
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Repositorio
Repositorio Digital San Andrés (UdeSa)
Institución
Universidad de San Andrés
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spelling Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?Delic, DiegoFil: 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.Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de EconomíaPérez-Truglia, Ricardo Nicolás2022-06-14T20:23:14Z2022-06-14T20:23:14Z2022-01Tesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_bdccinfo:ar-repo/semantics/tesisDeMaestriaapplication/pdfapplication/pdfDelic, 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/10908/19228http://hdl.handle.net/10908/19228enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/reponame:Repositorio Digital San Andrés (UdeSa)instname:Universidad de San Andrés2025-09-29T14:30:40Zoai:repositorio.udesa.edu.ar:10908/19228instacron:Universidad de San AndrésInstitucionalhttp://repositorio.udesa.edu.ar/jspui/Universidad privadaNo correspondehttp://repositorio.udesa.edu.ar/oai/requestmsanroman@udesa.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:23632025-09-29 14:30:40.652Repositorio Digital San Andrés (UdeSa) - Universidad de San Andrésfalse
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Delic, Diego
title_short Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?
title_full Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?
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title_full_unstemmed Relative satisfaction and policy preference: can we rationalize polarization?
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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.
description Fil: Delic, Diego. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.
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