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RESEARCH
Dissertation Project
Designing Policy Feedback:
Experimental Evidence on the Everyday Politics of the Social Contract
For most of history, people had only infrequent personal contacts with their governments. In contrast, the modern social contract generates myriad interactions between citizens and the state, in the form of publicly-funded benefits and taxation. By conducting randomized control trials, survey experiments and field work in the US, Sweden and Australia, I examine how the design of public policies can shape interactions that promote, or undermine, trust in government. Whereas most research links attitudinal outcomes to the content of policies, I argue that seemingly innocuous design features shaping policy experiences can have outsized impacts.
Select Working Papers
Benefits of Design: The Impact Shifting Administrative Burdens from Citizens to their Bank
Tax Filing and Policy Feedback in the US and Sweden: Internet Search, Headlines and a Survey Experiment
Credit Where Due? Theory and Evidence on How the Design of Policy Experiences Shapes Attitudes Toward Government
Feeling Taxed? Experiments on the Everyday Salience of the Costs of Government
Select Work in Progress
Fiscal and Political Effects of Simplifying Tax Filing: A Field Experiment with a National Tax Agency
Improving Financial Well-Being for Vulnerable Australians
(with Michael Hiscox, AEA RCT Registry)