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How Americans Think About Health Care and Insurance
This paper investigates how Americans perceive and reason about health insurance policies through two large-scale surveys and experiments conducted in 2019 and 2025. We elicit open-ended considerations, measure factual knowledge, and examine views on equity,
How Americans Think About Health Care and Insurance
This paper investigates how Americans perceive and reason about health insurance policies through two large-scale surveys and experiments conducted in 2019 and 2025. We elicit open-ended considerations, measure factual knowledge, and examine views on equity,
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Working Papers
- Author(s): Gregory Tham, Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper summarizes the findings from several waves of surveys fielded between mid-April and mid-September 2025 regarding people’s understanding of and views on trade and trade policy, including tariffs. The survey is on-going and this...
- Author(s): Eva Davoine, Stefanie Stantcheva, Thomas Renault, Yann Algan
This paper investigates the growing role of emotions in shaping policy views. Analyzing social citizens' media postings and political party messaging over a large variety of policy issues from 2013 to 2024, we document a...
- Author(s): Joshua Schwartzstein, Marcella Alsan, Stefanie Stantcheva
Personal lethal firearm ownership has for several decades been a hot button political issue in the United States. This article aims to explore the motivations and beliefs underlying sharply different views on the subject through...
- Author(s): Pierfrancesco Mei, Roberto Colarieti, Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies how and why households adjust their spending, saving, and borrowing in response to transitory income shocks. We leverage new large-scale survey data to first quantitatively assess households’ intertemporal marginal propensities to consume...
Publications
- Author(s): Beatrice Ferrario, Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper investigates how Americans perceive and reason about health insurance policies through two large-scale surveys and experiments conducted in 2019 and 2025. We elicit open-ended considerations, measure factual knowledge, and examine views on equity,...
- Author(s): Stefanie Stantcheva
In this lecture, I investigate how perceptions, mindsets, and beliefs influence public attitudes toward economic policies, building on existing research. I introduce a conceptual framework that highlights the roles of self-interest, broader societal impacts, and...
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...
- Author(s): Christopher Roth, Ingar Haaland, Johannes Wohlfart, Stefanie Stantcheva
We survey the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people’s minds using open-ended questions. We first provide an overview of studies in political economy, macroeconomics, finance, labor economics, and behavioral economics...
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Stefanie Stantcheva provides research insights on inflation, social mobility and zero-sum thinking in an interview with Die Zeit.
Stefanie Stantcheva provides research insights on Americans' perceptions of the economy and zero-sum thinking in an interview with Stern.
Stefanie Stantcheva discusses her work at the Social Economics Lab and explores zero-sum thinking in an interview with la Repubblica.
Stefanie Stantcheva shares her insights on zero-sum thinking and trade policy in an interview with NZZ.
Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss