Does awareness of global inequality increase personal giving or support for international redistributive policies?

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This paper was recently shared with me in relation to some of Giving What We Can’s messaging, our How Rich Am I calculator, and our member motivations:

“Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality” by Dietmar Fehr, Johanna Mollerstrom & Ricardo Perez-Truglia. Abstract:

Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans. We measure how individuals form perceptions of their ranks in the national and global income distributions, and how those perceptions relate to their national and global policy preferences. We find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution, but that correcting those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality.

Hive mind: I’d be interested in your thoughts this research and it’s applicability to EA contexts where we use this messaging.

In terms of GWWC we’ll often use this messaging in part to de-bias, and also to reduce scarcity mindset (people not giving because they never seem to “find their enough”).

[Table 6 that David R mentioned]