We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator games. The total sample consists of more than 5,000 respondents. We document that support for social spending and redistribution is positively correlated with generosity in all four countries. Further, we show that donors are more generous towards co-partisans in all countries, and that this effect is stronger among supporters of left-wing political parties. All results are robust to the inclusion to an extensive set of control variables, including income and education.
Working Paper No. 941
Generosity and Political Preferences
Working Paper
Reference
Dawes, Christopher T. et al. (2012). “Generosity and Political Preferences ”. IFN Working Paper No. 941. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
Dawes, Christopher T. et al. (2012). “Generosity and Political Preferences ”. IFN Working Paper No. 941. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
Authors
Christopher T. Dawes,
Magnus Johannesson,
Erik Lindqvist, Peter Loewen,
Robert Östling,
Marianne Bonde,
Frida Priks