(A)Voiding the Fiscal Contract: How Perceived Tax Noncompliance Influences Redistributive Preferences

• In Event: Public Opinion, Redistribution, and Economic Policy Preferences

Brief Overview

I theorize a link between perceptions of tax evasion and avoidance by other taxpayers and demand for redistributive taxation. I test my hypotheses through a combination of survey natural experiments and observational cross-country analysis.

Author

• Simone Paci, Columbia University