| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP9438
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| DP9438 How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments |
| Emmanuel Saez; Ilyana Kuziemko
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| 发表日期 | 2013-04-21
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution
using randomized online surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk). About 5,000 respondents were randomized into
treatments providing interactive information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth,
and the estate tax. We find that the informational treatment has very large effects on whether respondents view inequality as an important problem. By contrast, we find quantitatively small effects of the treatment on views about policy and redistribution: support for taxing the rich increases slightly, support for transfers to the poor does not, especially among those with lower incomes and education. An exception is the estate tax---we find that informing respondents that it affects only the very richest families has an extremely large positive effect on estate tax support, even increasing respondents' willingness to write to their U.S. senator about the issue. We also find that the treatment substantially decreases trust in government, potentially mitigating respondents' willingness to translate concerns about inequality into government action. Methodologically, we explore different strategies to lower attrition in online survey platforms and show our main results are robust across methods. A small follow-up survey one month later reveals that our results persist over time. Finally, we compare mTurk with other survey vendors and provide suggestions to future researchers considering this platform. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Inequality
Online survey
Randomized experiment
Taxation
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9438
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538274
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Emmanuel Saez,Ilyana Kuziemko. DP9438 How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments. 2013.
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