| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18865 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18865 |
| How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments | |
| Ilyana Kuziemko; Michael I. Norton; Emmanuel Saez; Stefanie Stantcheva | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-03-08 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We develop online survey experiments to analyze how information about inequality and taxes affects preferences for redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax. An additional 6,000 respondents were randomized into follow-up treatments to explore mechanisms underlying the initial results. The treatment has very large effects on whether respondents view inequality as a problem. By contrast, it only slightly moves policy preferences (e.g., top income tax rates and transfer programs). An exception is the estate tax—informing respondents of the small share of decedents who pay it more than doubles support for it and this effect persists in a one-month follow-up. We explore several explanations for our results. Extreme ex-ante misinformation appears to drive the large estate tax results. The small effects for all other policies can be at least partially explained by respondents' low trust in government—indeed, we show that priming people to think negatively about the government substantially reduces support for transfer programs—as well as a disconnect between concerns about social issues and the public policies that aim to address them. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18865 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576540 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ilyana Kuziemko,Michael I. Norton,Emmanuel Saez,et al. How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments. 2013. |
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| w18865.pdf（1028KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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