In all US states, individuals can file a protest with the goal of legally reducing their property
taxes. This choice provides a unique opportunity to study preferences for redistribution via …

Why do some voters support income redistribution while others do not? Public assistance
programs have two entangled effects on society: they equalize wealth, but they also cushion …

Tax-aversion reduces the likelihood that price rationing can be a politically viable tool for
environmental protection. We examine the case of the classic Pigouvian tax to control a …

The role of extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation in environmental decisions remain
unresolved. We exploit data from a lab-in-the-field experiment to analyze the role of extrinsic …

We design an experiment to study the effects of social identity on preferences over
redistribution. The experiment highlights the trade-off between social identity concerns and …

The economic effects of policy options help explain why individuals support some reforms
while they oppose others. However, disentangling the egoistic and sociotropic origins of …

We study experimentally how taxpayers choose between two tax regimes to fund a public
good. The first-best tax regime imposes a general, distortion-free income tax. However, this …

We let consumers vote on tax regimes in experimental markets. We test if taxes on sellers
are more popular than taxes on consumers, ie on voters themselves, even if taxes on sellers …

We investigate whether social preferences are stable across contexts using a field
population of low‐income Americans. We develop and demonstrate a simplified, visually …

Voting has been described as a contribution to a public good. Are people who vote
frequently therefore more likely to contribute to other public goods? Does partisanship affect …