Public Preferences Toward Administrative Burden: The Impact of Applicant Race

• In Event: Bureaucracies, Institutions and Welfare (session 2)

Brief Overview

One important aspect of program design is the embedded costs on those seeking access. Using data from a survey experiment, we examine the how the race of applicants affects public preferences for the level of administrative burden.

Authors

• Lael Keiser, University of Missouri

• Susan Marie Miller, Arizona State University