Causal attributions of poverty: a social stratification analysis.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the causal attributions of poverty among Swiss citizens using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel (2019-2021). Agreement with the following four explanations of poverty was measured: "the poor are lazy" (individual blame), "the poor are unlucky" (individual fate), "the poor are victims of social injustice" (social blame) and "poverty is an inevitable consequence of the modern world" (social fate). Social blame shows the highest prevalence in Switzerland, followed by individual fate which has further increased over the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the relationship between poverty attributions and socio-economic stratification from a cross-sectional and dynamic perspective using pooled OLS and fixed effects models. The potential mechanisms discussed for

SUBMITTER: Marquis L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12185453 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature