@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp430,
            	author={Schwarze, Johannes and Härpfer, Marco},
            	title={Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction},
            	year={2002},
	month={Feb},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={430},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp430},
	abstract={We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the
regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate
whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that
Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However, inequality
reduction by the state does not increase well-being. On the contrary, inequality reduction
places something of an excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from
the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to 1998.},
	keywords={Inequality aversion;redistribution;life satisfaction;panel data},
            }