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The first idea is that beliefs about the fairness of the economic system and of the deservedness of the recipients of the welfare state benefits matter for preferences for redistribution (Alesina and Giuliano, 2011). [...] The next three rows deal with expectations about the financial situation of the household in the next year, the likelihood of keeping the current occupation, and the likelihood of finding a new one in case one loses the current, respectively. [...] The difference in preferred tax rates on the top 1 percent and the bottom 50 percent of the income distribution is the dependent variable that measures the preferred progressivity of the underlying tax scheme. [...] In the US subsample, 14We use the average score of the perceived effect of immigrants on the culture in the host country and the perceived level of integration of immigrants to measure attitudes towards immigrants. [...] The purpose is to explore how much the explanatory variables can explain of the observed cross- country differences in the preferred progressivity, measured as the difference between the tax rate on the top 1 percent and the bottom 50 percent.