Welfare State

This paper asks how private misperceptions about individual risk affect equilibrium insurance contracts, pooling, and welfare when contracts adjust endogenously. The author pairs a general equilibrium model and estimation algorithm with evidence from survey and market data to trace how the joint distribution of actual risk and misperception matters for contract outcomes. The contribution is a modeling and estimation approach intended to recover equilibrium contracts, pooling behavior, and welfare effects in settings where agents misperceive their own risk.

The authors ask whether distinct state actions—learning demands, compliance demands, and sanctions—affect how citizens perceive welfare policy, beneficiaries, and the administering agency. Using a factorial survey experiment framed around German unemployment benefits, the study aims to distinguish which kinds of administrative burdens produce shifts in policy support, spending expectations, and legitimacy judgments. The piece contributes by unpacking heterogeneous policy-feedback effects across conceptually different state actions rather than treating administrative burden as a single phenomenon.

New research explores how citizens navigate trade-offs between political parties, revealing that altruistic concerns for others' welfare and spiteful tendencies against disliked groups significantly influence voting behavior. The study shows voters often prioritize policies helping those they identify with or dislike seeing benefits go to rival parties.

This article examines the relationship between income and support for redistribution in Latin America.

This article investigates how Americans' opinions on immigration influence their views toward welfare recipients and government spending. Using data from the Cumulative American National Election Study spanning 1992-2012, we find that attitudes about immigrants significantly shape public perceptions of welfare policies.

This study examines how rising inequality affects welfare generosity. It introduces the Political Reinforcement hypothesis, which suggests that growing economic disparity actually strengthens rather than modifies political polarization on welfare issues.