Partisanship Bias in Tax Preferences : Experimental Evidence
We present experimental evidence on a partisanship bias in tax preferences. Our participants, a representative South Korean sample of one thousand, prefer a higher level of tax and transfer when the party hypothetically in power is on their side of the ideological division between left and right. While the left-wing participants do not exhibit preferences for a higher level than their right-wing counterparts, contrary to the common belief, they do drive the partisanship bias, which is not share by the right-wing participants