{"id":2074,"date":"2020-01-22T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:46:25","slug":"can-populist-economics-coexist-with-pro-immigrant-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2074","title":{"rendered":"Can populist economics coexist with pro-immigrant policies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“\u201cWhen we decide how much to redistribute, how progressive the tax should be, the thinking is: I\u2019m putting some weight on everyone in the economy, measuring how much I value $1 given to Dylan, $1 given to Stefanie,\u201d Stantcheva told me, laying out the model. \u201cThe weight we put mentally depends on many characteristics of those people: how poor they are, how hard they work, etc.\u201d
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Voters often put a lower weight on immigrants\u2019 welfare, which means the more immigrants they think are getting money from the government, the less likely they are to support redistribution overall. But the picture is more complicated than that. Alesina and Stantcheva\u2019s model also assumes that voters put a low weight on \u201cfreeloaders\u201d: people they perceive to be cheating the welfare system, as opposed to the \u201cdeserving poor,\u201d who are getting benefits they ought to be receiving. If voters think that a higher share of immigrants than natives are freeloaders, that will also reduce support for redistribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMisperceptions and biases against immigrants can interact and reinforce each other,\u201d Alesina and Stantcheva write. \u201cIf the bias against immigrants is already high \u2026 even a small over-estimation of the share of free-loaders among immigrants can tilt preferences towards less redistribution. Similarly, if the bias against immigrants is high (or if the perceived share of free-loaders is high), even a small overestimation of the share of immigrants can reduce support for redistribution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what their survey work<\/a> with Armando Miano finds is that these kinds of misperceptions are incredibly common, and especially common among people disposed negatively toward immigration.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2020\/1\/15\/21065368\/immigration-misperceptions-taxes-spending-nativism-study-alesina-stantcheva<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“\u201cWhen we decide how much to redistribute, how progressive the tax should be, the thinking is: I\u2019m putting some weight on everyone in the economy, measuring how much I value $1 given to Dylan, $1 given to Stefanie,\u201d Stantcheva told me, laying out the model. \u201cThe weight we put mentally depends on many characteristics of those people: how poor they are, how hard they work, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voters often put a lower weight on immigrants\u2019 welfare, which means the more immigrants they think are getting money from the government, the less likely they are to support redistribution overall. But the picture is more complicated than that. Alesina and Stantcheva\u2019s model also assumes that voters put a low weight on \u201cfreeloaders\u201d: people they perceive to be cheating the welfare system, as opposed to the \u201cdeserving poor,\u201d who are getting benefits they ought to be receiving. If voters think that a higher share of immigrants than natives are freeloaders, that will also reduce support for redistribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cMisperceptions and biases against immigrants can interact and reinforce each other,\u201d Alesina and Stantcheva write. \u201cIf the bias against immigrants is already high \u2026 even a small over-estimation of the share of free-loaders among immigrants can tilt preferences towards less redistribution. Similarly, if the bias against immigrants is high (or if the perceived share of free-loaders is high), even a small overestimation of the share of immigrants can reduce support for redistribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

And what their survey work with Armando Miano finds is that these kinds of misperceptions are incredibly common, and especially common among people disposed negatively toward immigration.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[305,217,318,25,317,319,150],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bias","tag-economics","tag-false-beliefs","tag-immigration","tag-misperceptions","tag-redistribution","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}