Meritocracy and Support for Taxation of Stock Market Returns and Redistributive Policies in the United States

• In Event: Economic Experience and Support for Redistribution

Brief Overview

Our study examines how perceptions of market volatility and attributions of returns to luck or effort shape public support for taxing stock-market income.

Authors

• Pei-Hsun Hsieh, University of Pennsylvania

• Daniella Paola Alva, Lehigh University