Public Preferences for Government Spending Priorities: Survey Evidence from Germany

Public Preferences for Government Spending Priorities: Survey Evidence from Germany

Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public spending in six different policy areas. Our findings suggest,...

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Yayımlandı:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 57-2014)
Asıl Yazarlar: Hayo, Bernd, Neumeier, Florian
Materyal Türü: Makale
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014
Konular:
public preferences
Wirtschaft
taxes
survey
Public spending
Germany.
public debt
Economics
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Özet:Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public spending in six different policy areas. Our findings suggest, first, that the current scope of government is supported by a majority of the German population. Second, we find that individual preferences for the composition of government spending differ along various dimensions. Specifically, personal economic wellbeing, economic literacy, confidence in politicians, political ideology, and time preference are significantly related to individual attitudes toward public spending, taxes, and debt. The magnitude of the effects is particularly large for time preference, economic knowledge, and party preference. Third, public preferences for public spending priorities are only marginally affected when considering a public budget constraint.
Fiziksel Özellikler:32 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0357

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