New working paper w/ @hwaldfogel.bsky.social & Eldar Shafir! Where do ideological differences in beliefs about inequality come from? We find ~1/3 of the liberal-conservative gap comes from differences in noticing inequality; the rest in disagreement over what "counts" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Decomposing the Ideological Divide in Perceptions of Inequality:
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A Signal Detection Approach
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A central puzzle in the social sciences is that, despite high and rising inequality, democracies consistently under-deliver redistributive policies. Research in
