Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution
研究文化是否影响再分配偏好，通过比较移民与其出生国平均偏好，发现文化效应显著且持久，甚至与家庭收入影响相当。
Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate culture from the economic and institutional environment (“context”), we relate immigrants' redistributive preferences to the average preference in their birth countries. We find a strong positive relationship that is robust to rich controls for economic factors and cannot easily be explained by selective migration. This effect is as large as that of own household income and appears stronger for those less assimilated into the destination country. Immigrants from high-preference countries are more likely to vote for more proredistribution parties. The effect of culture persists strongly into the second generation.