Roth, Christopher; Settele, Sonja; Wohlfahrt, Johannes - 2022
We examine how beliefs about the debt-to-GDP ratio affect people's attitudes towards government spending and taxation … respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that … through changes in expectations about fiscal sustainability and persist in a four-week follow-up. …