Designing information provision experiments

I Haaland, C Roth, J Wohlfart - Journal of economic literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Place-based redistribution

C Gaubert, PM Kline, D Yagan - 2021 - nber.org
Governments around the world redistribute to distressed areas by conditioning taxes and
transfers on location. We show that when poor households are spatially concentrated …

How do inheritances shape wealth inequality? Theory and evidence from Sweden

A Nekoei, D Seim - The Review of Economic Studies, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article aims to measure and understand the role of inheritances in shaping wealth
inequality. We use a quasi-experimental design and Swedish administrative data to …

Beliefs about public debt and the demand for government spending

C Roth, S Settele, J Wohlfart - Journal of Econometrics, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine how beliefs about the debt-to-GDP ratio affect people's attitudes towards
government spending and taxation. Using representative samples of the US population, we …

Automation and the future of work: How rhetoric shapes the response in policy preferences

K Jeffrey - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021 - Elsevier
I investigate how increasing perceived vulnerability to an automation shock influences
redistributive preferences, and how exposure to rhetoric mediates that response. I field a pre …

Perceptions of inherited wealth and the support for inheritance taxation

S Bastani, D Waldenström - Economica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of
inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register‐linked Swedish …

International attitudes toward global policies

A Fabre, T Douenne, L Mattauch - Available at SSRN 4448523, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
A global carbon price funding a global basic income, called the``Global Climate
Scheme''(GCS), would be an effective and progressive way to combat climate change and …

Perceptions of inequality and social mobility in Mexico

RM Campos-Vazquez, A Krozer, AA Ramírez-Álvarez… - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Using new survey and experimental data, we investigate how perceptions about inequality
and social mobility affect preferences for redistribution in Mexico. In addition to the perceived …

Meet the oligarchs: Business legitimacy, state capacity and taxation

R Di Tella, J Dubra, AL Lagomarsino - 2016 - nber.org
We study the impact of two dimensions of trust, namely trust in business elites and trust in
government, on policy preferences. Using a randomized online survey, we find that our two …

Salience of inherited wealth and the support for inheritance taxation

S Bastani, D Waldenström - 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of
inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register-linked Swedish …