Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment register-linked Swedish survey, we find that informing individuals large aggregate importance and its link inequality opportunity significantly increases support for taxation. Changes perceived economic altered views on whether luck matters most success appear be driving factors behind treatment effect. Our findings suggest low salience could one explanation relatively marginalized developed economies.