Willing to pay? : dataset

Abstract

The Willing to Pay? project combines experimental techniques and methodologies with historically informed institutionalist analysis in order to more fully test and explore the relationships between institutions, policy regimes and citizens' policy choices in different welfare states. The research extends the current work in experimental economics and cognitive science in that our experiments were modeled on real world institutions and policy choices in several different countries. Working together with country experts we explicitly embed the choices facing our subjects in the historical and institutional context in which real choices are actually made. At the same time we extend and deepen historical institutionalist analysis by explicitly testing our theories and assumptions about how citizens in different polities respond to policy choices in different institutional settings.