For Them, Not Me: Does Empathy for Poor Friends and Family Members Affect Support for Redistribution?

• In Event: Economic Experience and Support for Redistribution

Brief Overview

I use a perspective-taking experiment to test whether empathy born from close relationships with friends or relatives experiencing poverty or financial distress engenders greater redistributive support and more favorable attitudes toward the poor.

Author

• Bea-Sim Ooi, University of California, Riverside