Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment
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DOI：
10.1111/ajps.12643
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发表时间：
2021-07-08
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4.2
通讯作者：
Lauderdale, Benjamin E.
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作者：
Barnes, Lucy;Blumenau, Jack;Lauderdale, Benjamin E.
很难衡量公众对支出优先事项之间权衡的看法，因为公众对现有政府支出的理解有限，预算问题也很复杂。我们提出了一种新的测量策略，使用了连续处理、多变量选择实验。这项实验提出了支出和税收方面的赤字中性变化捆绑，使我们能够调查对现有预算修改的态度。然后，我们使用结构选择模型来估计公众对支出类别和税收水平的偏好，平均而言，并作为受访者属性的函数。在我们的应用程序中，我们发现英国公众倾向于支付更多的税收，以资助主要预算类别的大规模支出增加，支出偏好是多维的，年轻人比老年人更喜欢较低的税收和支出水平。
It is difficult to measure public views on trade-offs between spending priorities because public understanding of existing government spending is limited and the budgetary problem is complicated. We present a new measurement strategy using a continuous treatment, multivariate choice experiment. The experiment proposes deficit-neutral bundles of changes in spending and taxation, allowing us to investigate attitudes toward modifications to the existing budget. We then use a structural choice model to estimate public preferences over spending categories and the taxation level, on average and as a function of respondent attributes. In our application, we find that the UK public favors paying more in tax to finance large spending increases across major budget categories, that spending preferences are multidimensional, and that younger people prefer lower levels of taxation and spending than older people.