Observing Income Inequality and Its Political Consequences

• In Event: How Context Shapes the Perception of Inequality

Brief Overview

Using a geocoded housing price database, we develop a new measure of "visible" income inequality and show that it predicts perceived income inequality as well as redistributive policy preferences.

Authors

• Eunji Kim, Vanderbilt University

• Sara M Kirshbaum, Vanderbilt University

• Brian Hamel, UCLA