Replication Data for: Assessing the Stability of Fiscal Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Replication Data for: Assessing the Stability of Fiscal Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment. Dataset, do file, and log file included. Abstract: The literature on attitudes toward government budgets has been dominated by two distinct approaches, jointly studying both sides of the ledger (holistic approaches) and studying attitudes over spending and revenue separately (singular approaches). Despite both approaches being widely adopted, scholars have given limited attention to testing empirically how methodological differences in the approaches may affect measures of fiscal attitudes and the inferences we draw from those measures. In this paper, we ask, “Do the different approaches to studying the budget alter mass attitudes toward spending and taxes, and if so, how?” Using data from an MTurk survey experiment, we find that spending choices differ significantly (attitude instability) across the two approaches. On the revenue side, our results show that choices over taxation tend to remain consistent and stable, regardless of whether the choices include only taxes or the combination of taxes and spending.复现数据集：《评估财政态度稳定性：一项调查实验证据》。本数据集包含原始数据、Do文件与日志文件。摘要：现有关于政府预算态度的研究文献主要由两类截然不同的研究范式主导：一类是同时考察预算收支两侧的整体式研究（holistic approaches），另一类是单独分析支出与收入态度的单一式研究（singular approaches）。尽管两类范式均被广泛应用，但学者们尚未充分关注实证检验：即两类范式的方法论差异会如何影响财政态度的测量结果，以及基于这些测量结果得出的研究推论。本研究提出核心问题：考察预算的不同研究范式是否会改变公众对支出与税收的态度？若存在影响，其具体作用机制为何？本研究基于MTurk调查实验数据开展分析，结果显示两类范式下的支出选择存在显著差异，即态度存在不稳定性。而在收入侧，研究结果表明：无论税收选择仅单独考察税收项，还是同时纳入税收与支出项，公众的税收决策均保持一致且稳定。