| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP15216
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| DP15216 Understanding Tax Policy: How do people Reason |
| [unavailable]
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| 发表日期 | 2020-08-28
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale Social Economics surveys issued to representative U.S. samples and associated experiments, I seek to elicit respondents' factual knowledge about tax policy and the income or wealth distributions. Most importantly, I study their understanding of the mechanisms of tax policy and the reasoning that underlies their policy views. In decomposing policy views, I find that support for income and estate taxes is most strongly correlated with social preferences, i.e., the perceived benefits of redistribution and concerns around the fairness of inequality and taxation, as well as with broader views of the government. Efficiency concerns play a more minor role. These correlational patterns are confirmed by the experimental approach, which shows people instructional videos that explain the workings and consequences of one of the aspects of tax policy (the "Redistribution'' and the "Efficiency'' treatments) or that bring the two together and focus on the trade-off (the "Economist'' treatment). The Redistribution and Economist treatments significantly increase support for more progressive income or estate taxes, while the Efficiency treatment has no effect. There are large partisan gaps in both the final policy views, and at every step of the reasoning about the underlying mechanisms of taxes. Democrats' and Republicans' divergences in tax policy views can ultimately be traced back to different normative criteria (social preferences) and views of the government, rather than to different perceptions of the efficiency implications of taxation. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
; Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Redistribution
Survey
Perceptions
Taxation
Experiments
Fairness
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp15216-2
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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/544189
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[unavailable]. DP15216 Understanding Tax Policy: How do people Reason. 2020.
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