Time Delay, Externalities and Attitudes Toward Taxation

公众对一项政策的态度对其有效性有重大影响。该项目的目的是调查公众对基于奖励的制度，特别是税收的态度的决定因素，强调考虑税收的跨期性质的重要性：当税收的成本和收益发生在不同的时间。这个项目的目的是一个受控的研究如何以及为什么公众对税收的态度是受时间结构的外部性，税收是为了控制。预期的目标是为公众接受的机构设计提供信息，更广泛地说，提高对延迟外部性环境中跨期决策的理解。

Public attitudes toward a policy have a significant impact on its effectiveness. The aim of this project is to investigate the determinants of public attitudes for incentive-based institutions, particularly taxes, by highlighting the importance of considering the intertemporal properties of taxation: when costs and benefits of taxation occur at different times. This project is designed to be a controlled study of how and why public attitudes towards taxation are influenced by the temporal structure of the externalities that the taxes are meant to control. The anticipated goal is to inform the design of institutions that the public will accept and, more generally, improve the understanding of intertemporal decision-making in environments with delayed externalities.