PROF. BERNARDO LARA E.
I'm an Assistant Professor at the School of Government of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. You can find me at Building A, Campus Peñalolén, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.
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Email me at bernardo.lara at uai dot cl.
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If you want to see more non-academic material, visit my blog: https://medium.com/@bnr_jc (in Spanish).
LATEST RESEARCH
More than Average Income? Preferences for Income Equality and Mobility Statistics
To describe preferences for income mobility/equality, we generate statistics that can be interpreted as marginal rates of substitution and converted to willingness-to-pay (WTP). All else constant, U.S. residents are willing to pay $2,736 dollars to increase income equality 10 percentiles and $1,778 dollars to increase income mobility 10 percentiles. Liberals' WTP for income equality is two times larger than conservatives'; there are no significant differences in the WTP for mobility. Educational attainment, income, ideology, and beliefs about upward mobility negatively predict a WTP for income equality; the only predictor of the WTP for mobility is gender.
