ZEW, Journees LAGV, LMU, RIDGE, and AEI. This project was reviewed and approved in advance by the Institutional Review Board at The University of Texas at Dallas. The experiments were registered in the AEA RCT Registry (#0005992). The original pre-registration was posted on May 24, 2020. However, after receiving interview requests from the media, we removed the pre-registration (we were concerned that the media would divulge the hypotheses listed in the pre-registration and thus contaminate the study). We re-posted the pre-registration on June 16, 2020, after the deadline to file a protest had passed (and before conducting any analysis of the data). After the study is accepted for publication, we will make all the code and data publicly available.

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There is a widespread belief that Republicans and Democrats are worlds apart with respect to their preferences for redistribution. However, is that partisan divide real? In this paper, we discuss evidence from the General Social Survey and a tailored survey. We also discuss a revealed-preference measure constructed with administrative data. We conclude that the partisan divide is more nuanced than previously thought.

Advances in Field Experiments, RIDGE, IIPF, Journees LAGV, and NOVAFRICA. This project was reviewed and approved in advance by the Institutional Review Board at The University of Texas at Dallas. The field experiment was pre-registered in the AEA RCT Registry (#0007483). To prevent contamination of the subject pool (e.g., that subjects could read about the hypotheses being tested), we posted the RCT pre-registration immediately after the deadline to file a protest had passed, but before conducting any analysis of the data. After the study is accepted for publication, we will share all the code and data through a public repository. Xinmei Yang and Miriam Malament provided superb research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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