Working Papers:
Authors: Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico, and Stefanie Stantcheva
Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies.
Authors: Marcella Alsan, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Yang
We study to what extent individual preferences for protecting rights and civil liberties are elastic to health insecurity.
Authors: Alberto Alesina, Matteo Ferroni, and Stefanie Stantcheva
We investigate how respondents perceive racial inequities between Black and white Americans, what they believe causes them, and what interventions, if any, they think should be implemented to reduce them.
Authors: Kristoffer Hvidberg, Claus Kreiner, and Stefanie Stantcheva
We link survey data on Danish people’s perceived income positions and views on inequality within various reference groups to administrative records on their reference groups, income histories, and life events.
Author: Stefanie Stantcheva
Using large-scale online surveys and experiments on representative U.S. samples, we study how well people understand, reason, and learn about four economic policies: i) Personal income taxation, ii) Estate taxation, iii) Health insurance, and iv) Trade.
Author: Stefanie Stantcheva
I study how people understand and reason about trade, and what factors shape their views on trade policy.
Publications:
Authors: Marcella Alsan, David Cutler, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Yang
In this survey study of US adults, there were gaps in reported incidence of COVID-19 and knowledge regarding its spread and symptoms and social distancing behavior…
Authors: Alberto Alesina, Armando Miano, and Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution and reviews the empirical evidence on the effects of increasing racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution.
Authors: Beatrice Ferrario and Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper illustrates the design and use of open-ended survey questions as a way of eliciting people’s first-order concerns on policies.
Authors: Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael Norton, Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva
We develop survey experiments to analyze how information about inequality and taxes affects preferences for redistribution. 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax….
Authors: Alberto Alesina, Armando Miano, and Stefanie Stantcheva
We design and conduct large-scale surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how natives perceive immigrants and how these perceptions influence their preferences for redistribution…
Authors: Alberto Alesina, Edoardo Teso and Stefanie Stantcheva
Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S..
Authors: Alberto Alesina, Armando Miano, and Stefanie Stantcheva
Americans are polarized not only in their views on policy issues and attitudes towards government and society, but also in their perceptions of the same, factual reality…
Author: Stefanie Stantcheva
I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale Social Economics surveys issued to representative U.S. samples and associated experiments, I seek to elicit respondents’ factual knowledge about tax policy…