TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter focuses on an important aspect of economic inequality – the question of how people perceive inequality and whether these perceptions deviate in any meaningful way from statistical measures of inequality. Using a novel approach, the author investigates whether individuals across different countries are able to correctly estimate the shape of income distribution of the country where they reside. The author further investigates whether individuals have the distribution of a particular reference group in mind when they answer questions on inequality. The author finds that perceptions of inequality are frequently shaped by reference groups such as those formed according to educational attainment, age, and gender.
VL  - 26
SN  - 978-1-78756-458-9, 978-1-78756-457-2/1049-2585
DO  - 10.1108/S1049-258520180000026011
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-258520180000026011
AU  - Hadavand Aboozar
ED  - John A. Bishop
ED  - Juan Gabriel Rodríguez
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Misperceptions: An Analysis of Subjective Economic Inequality
T2  - Inequality, Taxation and Intergenerational Transmission
T3  - Research on Economic Inequality
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 247
EP  - 281
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -