What determines individual trade-policy preferences?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Scheve, KF; Slaughter, MJ
• 署名单位: Dartmouth College; National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(00)00094-5
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 267-292
• 关键词: trade; Policy preferences; political economy

摘要

This article provides new evidence on the determinants of individual trade-policy preferences using individual-level survey data for the United States. There are two main empirical results. First, we find that factor type dominates industry of employment in explaining support for trade barriers. Second, we find that home ownership also matters for individuals' trade-policy preferences. Independent of factor type, home ownership in counties with a manufacturing mix concentrated in comparative-disadvantage industries is correlated with support fur trade barriers. This finding suggests that, in addition to current factor incomes driving preferences as in standard trade models, preferences also depend on asset values. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.