How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
通过随机在线调查实验，发现提供美国收入不平等和税收政策信息对民众的再分配偏好影响有限，但遗产税信息显著提升支持度，低政府信任和问题与政策脱节是主因。
We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive, customized information on US income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only slightly moves tax and transfer policy preferences. An exception is the estate tax—informing respondents of the small share of decedents who pay it doubles support for it. The small effects for all other policies can be partially explained by respondents' low trust in government and a disconnect between concerns about social issues and the public policies meant to address them.