Institutional Quality and Social Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence

• In Event: Development, Elites, and Redistribution: Historical and Modern Evidence from Around the World

Brief Overview

we conducted a series of experiments from February to May 2016 simulating earned income and tax evasion. We find that high earners prefer more redistribution when they can more easily under-report their income.

Authors

• Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder

• Israel Marques, National Research University - Higher School of Economics