How Do Beliefs about the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?
通过调查实验，研究人们对性别工资差距大小的信念如何影响其对缩小差距政策的支持，发现信念因果影响政策支持，但无法解释党派和性别导致的观点极化。
I conduct a survey experiment to study the relationship between people’s beliefs about the size of the gender wage gap and their demand for policies aimed at mitigating it. Beliefs causally affect support for equal pay legislation and affirmative action programs, but cannot account for the polarization in policy views by partisanship and gender. Changes in policy demand seem to be driven by changes in beliefs about discrimination in labor markets and fairness concerns, while self-interest appears less important. I provide evidence that pessimism about the effectiveness of government intervention limits the elasticity of policy demand to perceived wage differentials.