Survey Data on Carbon Inequality and Support for Wealth Taxation, 4,796 Respondents

Replication data for Ahrens, Bremer, and Hakelberg (2026) published in Climate Policy. The dataset contains de-identified raw survey data from 4,796 respondents across 83 variables, along with processed analysis data and full replication code. Ethics approval was granted by the IRB at the Free University Berlin.

Use Cases

• Analyzing public support for wealth taxation based on survey responses.
• Studying the relationship between carbon inequality perceptions and policy preferences.
• Replicating conjoint experiment results on climate finance instruments.
• Applying entropy-balancing weights for population calibration in survey analysis.

Strengths

• Includes a full replication package with raw data, processed data, and analysis code.
• Contains survey data from 4,796 respondents across 83 variables.
• Data is de-identified and includes a codebook and reproducibility matrix.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the processed analysis dataset is 4,653, indicating some data loss from listwise filtering.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, replication package for a peer-reviewed journal article.

Collection Method

Survey data collection, likely from an online panel.

Time Range

Survey conducted in or before 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 16:33:33; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Geography is unspecified; likely a national survey, potentially in Germany given the approving IRB.