Replication Data for: Income, Education, and Policy Priorities

Are people's priorities associated with their income and education levels? There is a long history in political science of claims that priorities are driven by economic interests, but also that low income and low education people fail to prioritize their economic interests. In this paper we use measures of revealed importance from Sides et al. (2023) to evaluate the priorities of high and low income/education voters with respect to 44 different policies. It is well known that there are substantial differences in the preferences of people with lower incomes or education levels and people with higher incomes or education levels, but conditional on preferences we find very small differences among education and income groups in terms of priorities. Like high income and high education voters, lower income and education voters care most about the major issues of the day. They do not care systematically more or less than other voters about policies that expand social welfare, redistribution, or labor rights.