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Revisiting the effect of growing up in a recession on attitudes towards redistribution

Bietenbeck, Jan LU and Thiemann, Petra LU (2023) In Journal of Applied Econometrics 38(5). p.786-794
Abstract
Giuliano and Spilimbergo (2014) show that individuals who experienced a recession when young are more likely to favor redistribution in the short and long run. We revisit their analysis in three ways. First, we conduct a narrow replication in the General Social Survey and the World Values Survey; we successfully replicate the original results for outcomes that directly measure preferences for redistribution, but the results for other outcomes are less clear-cut. Second, adding recent survey waves yields results similar to the narrow replication. Third, a wide replication in a different dataset (International Social Survey Programme) corroborates the original results.
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preferences for redistribution, beliefs, recession, replication
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Journal of Applied Econometrics
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38
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786 - 794
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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0883-7252
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10.1002/jae.2970
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