Replication Data for 'Do voters understand the benefits of taxes?' contains data from three economic experiments where participants voted on tax policies in a virtual society. The dataset, authored by Benjamin Carter and associated with Perspectives on Politics, was last updated on June 18, 2026. Results show poor players voted against high taxes 30-50% of the time, supporting the burden hypothesis.
Use Cases
- Modeling voter tax preferences based on income and policy framing from the described experiments.
- Analyzing cross-cultural differences in tax opposition using data from American and Singaporean participants.
- Testing the 'burden hypothesis' that voters focus on tax burdens over benefits using the experimental voting data.
Strengths
- Includes data from three distinct experiments, allowing for comparative analysis.
- Reports specific quantitative findings, such as poor players opposing high taxes 30-50% of the time.
- Contains cross-cultural data from American and Singaporean participants.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Benjamin Carter, Perspectives on Politics
- Collection Method
- Data gathered from economic experiments where participants voted on tax policies in a virtual society.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-18 02:36:23; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Experiments involved participants from the United States and Singapore.