Julien Senn
@sennjulien.bsky.social
🚨Publication alert🚨
What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals?
Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr).
Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep
A thread🧵
What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals?
Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr).
Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep
A thread🧵
June 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Related to work by @s-stantcheva.bsky.social @dietmarfehr.bsky.social @rfisman.bsky.social l @seimseim.bsky.social @ihaal.bsky.social @johanneswohlfart.bsky.social @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @mortenstostad.bsky.social and many others.
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
coauthored with a great team of non-random coauthors in ® order:
@aljoshahenkel.bsky.social (@kofeth.bsky.social, @ethz.ch)
® Ernst Fehr ® Julien Senn (@econ.uzh.ch)
® Thomas Epper (@cnrs.fr, @iesegresearch.bsky.social, @ieseg.fr)
@aljoshahenkel.bsky.social (@kofeth.bsky.social, @ethz.ch)
® Ernst Fehr ® Julien Senn (@econ.uzh.ch)
® Thomas Epper (@cnrs.fr, @iesegresearch.bsky.social, @ieseg.fr)
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
coauthored with a great team of non-random coauthors in ® order:
@aljoshahenkel.bsky.social (@kofeth.bsky.social, @ethz.ch)
® Ernst Fehr ® Julien Senn (@econ.uzh.ch)
® Thomas Epper (@cnrs.fr, @iesegresearch.bsky.social, @ieseg.fr)
@aljoshahenkel.bsky.social (@kofeth.bsky.social, @ethz.ch)
® Ernst Fehr ® Julien Senn (@econ.uzh.ch)
® Thomas Epper (@cnrs.fr, @iesegresearch.bsky.social, @ieseg.fr)
💡These findings cast a new light on the seemingly puzzling result that, in the aggregate, large changes in beliefs about inequality often do not translate into changes in demand for redistribution.
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
💡These findings cast a new light on the seemingly puzzling result that, in the aggregate, large changes in beliefs about inequality often do not translate into changes in demand for redistribution.
🤔 How do beliefs and prefs affect support for the 99% initiative?
1.Those with social prefs are more supportive of the 99%
2.The shock in beliefs does not affect avg support for the 99%.
3.Heterogeneity 🚨! The shock has a large effect on the support of the (richer) inequality averse.
1.Those with social prefs are more supportive of the 99%
2.The shock in beliefs does not affect avg support for the 99%.
3.Heterogeneity 🚨! The shock has a large effect on the support of the (richer) inequality averse.
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🤔 How do beliefs and prefs affect support for the 99% initiative?
1.Those with social prefs are more supportive of the 99%
2.The shock in beliefs does not affect avg support for the 99%.
3.Heterogeneity 🚨! The shock has a large effect on the support of the (richer) inequality averse.
1.Those with social prefs are more supportive of the 99%
2.The shock in beliefs does not affect avg support for the 99%.
3.Heterogeneity 🚨! The shock has a large effect on the support of the (richer) inequality averse.
Can these misperceptions be corrected? Yes 😃
Does updating depend on preferences? No 😮
Using an information intervention (a downward shock in beliefs for almost everyone), we show that most subjects update their beliefs downwards, independent of preference types.
Does updating depend on preferences? No 😮
Using an information intervention (a downward shock in beliefs for almost everyone), we show that most subjects update their beliefs downwards, independent of preference types.
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Can these misperceptions be corrected? Yes 😃
Does updating depend on preferences? No 😮
Using an information intervention (a downward shock in beliefs for almost everyone), we show that most subjects update their beliefs downwards, independent of preference types.
Does updating depend on preferences? No 😮
Using an information intervention (a downward shock in beliefs for almost everyone), we show that most subjects update their beliefs downwards, independent of preference types.
🤔How do these subjects perceive inequality, and do these perceptions depend on preferences?
We contacted them months later and find that
i) most vastly overestimate inequality
ii) these misperceptions are largely independent of preferences.
We contacted them months later and find that
i) most vastly overestimate inequality
ii) these misperceptions are largely independent of preferences.
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🤔How do these subjects perceive inequality, and do these perceptions depend on preferences?
We contacted them months later and find that
i) most vastly overestimate inequality
ii) these misperceptions are largely independent of preferences.
We contacted them months later and find that
i) most vastly overestimate inequality
ii) these misperceptions are largely independent of preferences.
We first elicit the distributional preferences of a sample broadly representative of the Swiss voting population.
Three distinct behavioral types coexist: inequality averse, altruistic, and selfish subjects.
This is consistent with our previous work (tinyurl.com/44p7ujjn)
Three distinct behavioral types coexist: inequality averse, altruistic, and selfish subjects.
This is consistent with our previous work (tinyurl.com/44p7ujjn)
May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We first elicit the distributional preferences of a sample broadly representative of the Swiss voting population.
Three distinct behavioral types coexist: inequality averse, altruistic, and selfish subjects.
This is consistent with our previous work (tinyurl.com/44p7ujjn)
Three distinct behavioral types coexist: inequality averse, altruistic, and selfish subjects.
This is consistent with our previous work (tinyurl.com/44p7ujjn)
Using a staggered experiment, we explore the joint role of distributive preferences and beliefs about inequality for support for the 99% initiative—a highly redistributive policy proposal on which Swiss citizens voted in 2021.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Using a staggered experiment, we explore the joint role of distributive preferences and beliefs about inequality for support for the 99% initiative—a highly redistributive policy proposal on which Swiss citizens voted in 2021.
I don't think this is necessarily a german problem and I have always seen this as the biggest issue in academia. Juniors are way too reliant on advisor(s), at all levels.
May 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I don't think this is necessarily a german problem and I have always seen this as the biggest issue in academia. Juniors are way too reliant on advisor(s), at all levels.
Reposted by Julien Senn
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April 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Tenure was created for moments like this.
It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully.
Use it or lose it.
It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully.
Use it or lose it.