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Gender, Income and Attitudinal Change: Re-interpreting the Impact of Economic Shocks on Social Policy Preferences

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Title Gender, Income and Attitudinal Change: Re-interpreting the Impact of Economic Shocks on Social Policy Preferences
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/25693
 
Creator Bozcaga,Tugba; Pasolli,Kelly
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Do individuals change their social policy preferences in response to personal economic shocks? In a recent paper, \Explaining Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from the Great Recession," author Yotam Margalit uses panel survey data to argue that shocks to an individual's economic circumstances, particularly the loss of a job, can alter short-term preferences towards social welfare spending. We extend this analysis by respecifying the author's models to examine the heterogenous eects of economic shocks on individuals from dierent economic and social backgrounds. Our results show that the impacts of economic shocks are contingent on personal income and gender. These alternative specications suggest that job loss and the perceptions of having a less secure job have dierent and sometimes unexpected eects among lower-income individuals and women. We conclude that personal economic and social backgrounds play a signicant role in determining social policy preferences, leading to dierent degrees and patterns of attitudinal changes when economic interests and risks are in question.