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• TITLE: National Identity and Social Welfare

  AUTHORS: Chee Meng Tan, Yoong Hon Lee, Pek Kim Ng

  KEYWORDS: National Identity, Social Welfare, Taxation, Democracy

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.8 No.10, June 19, 2018

  ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the relationship between national identification and social welfare. Society is a direct democracy where representative rich and poor agents vote on their most preferred tax rate. Utilizing the economics of identity, agent utility not only depends on income but also on social identification. We show that national identification increases agent utility and social welfare when the rich implements the most preferred tax rate of the poor, who is also the median voter. Furthermore, using respondent level of happiness as a proxy for social welfare, we show that national pride has a positive impact on welfare through logit regression analysis.