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(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada)| Date: | 2022 |
| Abstract: | This paper studies the relationship between people's beliefs about the quality of their institutions, as measured by corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model which introduces taxes into Foellmi and Oechslin's (2007) general equilibrium model of non-collusive corruption. In this model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it undermines trust in government, which reduces people's support for redistribution. On the other hand, more corruption decreases own wealth relative to average wealth of below-average-wealth individuals leading to a higher demand for redistribution. Thus, the effect of perceived corruption on redistribution cannot be signed a priori. Our novel empirical findings for Latin America suggest that perceiving corruption in the public sector increases people's support for redistribution. Although the wealth channel dominates in the data, we also find evidence for the trust channel - from corruption to demand for redistribution via reduced trust. |
| Grants: | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2019-104619RB-C43 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1571 Agencia Estatal de Investigación CEX2019-000915-S Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad ECO2015-67171-P Agencia Estatal de Investigación PGC2018-097898-B-100 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR1571 |
| Note: | Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB |
| Note: | Altres ajuts: Latin American Public Opinion Project, The United States Agency for International Development, The Inter-American Development Bank, Vanderbilt University, the United Nations Development Program |
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| Language: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: | Preference for redistribution ; Corruption perceptions ; Political trust ; Bribery ; Latin America |
| Published in: | European journal of political economy, (10 January 2022) , ISSN 0176-2680 |
