The Role of Misconceptions in Support for Regressive Tax Reform

By Joel B. Slemrod. National tax journal, 2006

153 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Martín Tetaz
2. Stefanie Stantcheva
3. Ricardo Perez-Truglia
4. Guillermo Cruces
5. Alberto Cavallo
6. Christopher Roth
7. Johannes Wohlfart
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1. Martín Tetaz
2. Stefanie Stantcheva
3. Ricardo Perez-Truglia
4. Guillermo Cruces

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding Tax Policy: How Do People Reason? (2020, background): “Slemrod (2006) tries to understand why people support regressive reforms, and maps this support to broader misunderstandings of the incidence of taxes.”
• Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (2012, background): “…about the potential of information providers for improving policies, although the impact of the biases in the efficiency of redistribution should also be considered (Acemoglu and Robinson, 2005), The role of misconceptions in political economy has been studied before (Romer, 2003; Slemrod, 2006).”