Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality
通过对德国代表性样本的两年面对面调查实验，研究人们如何感知自己在国家和全球收入分布中的位置，以及这种感知如何影响他们对全球不平等政策的支持。
Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conducted a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans. We measure how individuals form perceptions of their ranks in the national and global income distributions and how these perceptions relate to their national and global policy preferences. We find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution but that correcting those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality.