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Replication Data for: Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? Evidence from Finland’s tax day

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Title Replication Data for: Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? Evidence from Finland’s tax day
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FXVIUR
 
Creator Dunaiski, Maurice
Tukiainen, Janne
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens’ income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment
in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income
information on Finland’s top earners to the public. To identify causal effects we compare respondents who took part in the European Social Survey shortly before and after the event. We find that the tax day increases perceptions that earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for redistribution. Our results highlight the scope conditions of previous experimental studies, and suggest that increasing exposure
to inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may
trigger only marginal changes in support for redistribution.
 
Subject Social Sciences
income transparency
inequality
redistribution
taxes
 
Date 2023-12-11
 
Contributor Dunaiski, Maurice