Ferreira, João V. and Ramoglou, Stratos and Savva, Foivos and Vlassopoulos, Michael
(2025).
Preferences for Income and Wealth Limits: Evidence from a Survey Experiment, 2023.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Service.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-858217
Data description (abstract)
This is the replication package for the paper "Preferences for Income and Wealth Limits: Evidence from a Survey Experiment", published in the European Economic Review. The paper examines public support for imposing maximum limits on top incomes and wealth using a survey-based experiment with a large sample of US and German participants (N = 3,954). In addition to a baseline treatment in which US participants indicate whether they favour or oppose limits on CEOs’ compensation across several hypothetical scenarios, the design includes between-subject treatments to estimate the causal effects of two factors on limitarian preferences: concerns about potential efficiency losses from setting compensation limits (Treatment 2) and aversion to government intervention (Treatment 3). The study also tests whether the baseline findings extend to limits on entrepreneurial wealth accumulation (Treatment 4) and whether the results generalize to a different socio-political context using a German sample (Treatment 5). The package includes the original survey data, Stata replication code, a full survey transcript with variable labels and coding, and an accompanying read-me file describing the steps required to replicate the paper’s analysis.
| Data creators: |
| Creator Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Ferreira João V. |
University of Southampton |
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-8667
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| Ramoglou Stratos |
University of Bristol |
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| Savva Foivos |
University of Southampton |
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| Vlassopoulos Michael |
University of Southampton |
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| Sponsors: |
N/A
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| Grant reference: |
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the University of Southampton
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| Topic classification: |
Economics
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| Keywords: |
LIMITARIAN PREFERENCES, LIMITARIANISM, EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION, INCOME CAP, WEALTH CAP, WEALTH TAXATION, WEALTH, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME TAX, SOCIAL INEQUALITY
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| Date published: |
19 Dec 2025 09:50
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| Last modified: |
19 Dec 2025 09:50
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| Collection period: |
| Date from: | Date to: |
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| 18 July 2023 | 26 July 2023 |
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| Country: |
United States, Germany (October 1990-) |
| Data collection method: |
Data collection took place via Prolific in July 2023 (N = 3,954). Recruitment targeted a sample of US (German) nationals, currently residing in the US (Germany), with a minimum “approval rate” of 98% on Prolific. The sample is balanced in terms of gender for each country. Participants were randomly selected from these two samples (one per country), and in the US participants were randomly assigned to 4 between-subject treatments as described above. The experimental design, empirical analysis, and hypotheses were pre-registered before the data collection started (https://aspredicted.org/74F_CJH). |
| Observation unit: |
Individual |
| Kind of data: |
Numeric, Text |
| Type of data: |
Cross-national survey data, Experimental data
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| Resource language: |
English |
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| Rights owners: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Ferreira João V. |
University of Southampton |
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-8667
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| Ramoglou Stratos |
University of Bristol |
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| Savva Foivos |
University of Southampton |
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| Vlassopoulos Michael |
University of Southampton |
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| Contact: |
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| Notes on access: |
The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.
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| Publisher: |
UK Data Service
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| Last modified: |
19 Dec 2025 09:50
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