Fabian Kalleitner explores when people support welfare cuts or tax increases during times of fiscal stress. Research on redistribution preferences often debates whether people favor policies that serve their own interests, or align with their fairness beliefs. Using survey-experimental data from Austria, Kalleitner shows that self-interest matters more when policies clearly signal their impact on people’s costs and benefits.
Read more about Fabian Kalleitner and his research on Bluesky and his website.
About the series:
Bites of Inequality is a midday talk series at the LMU Institute of Sociology in cooperation with ISI, which brings together science and the public in an open format. The focus is on current research on social inequality, presented and discussed in an accessible form.
The talks take place on Tuesdays from 12:15pm to 1:45pm in Konradstraße 6, room 208.
You can find the series in LSF under Comparative Stratification Research (event number 15261).