Chloé de Meulenaer

PhD @LSEEcon | Interested in demand for redistribution, policy preferences, and all sorts of obscure films in black and white

[Morten N. Støstad @MortenStostad]

A bit about the methodology of this paper, since AI in research has been on everyone's minds.

We use over 4 million API calls to GPT-4o mini to classify legislative speech excerpts in Norway and the US.

Our best estimate is that classification is ~90% accurate. How do we know?

[Renaud Foucart @RenaudFoucart]

So cool. Redistribution in the US is "because inequality is unfair," while in Norway it's "so that you can walk safely in the street and be surrounded by educated people"

[Morten N. Støstad @MortenStostad]

NEW paper w. @LobeckMax, @CdMeul:

How do people in the United States and Norway argue for redistribution?

In the U.S., pro-redistributive arguments mainly appeal to fairness. In Norway, arguments about the societal consequences of inequality are central.

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