Working Papers
Browse all our working papers.
The 2025 US Tariffs: Perceptions, Understanding, and Policy Views
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 file is updated as new data comes in.
The 2025 US Tariffs: Perceptions, Understanding, and Policy Views
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 file is updated as new data comes in.
All 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...
- Author(s): Alberto Alesina, Matteo Ferroni, 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....
- Author(s): Stefanie Stantcheva
I study how people understand and reason about trade, and what factors shape their views on trade policy....
- Author(s): 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)...
Updates, Events & News
Updates & Events
News
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