11,664 rated or chosen profiles from 1,458 respondents, in up to 4 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 4 attributes.

About this table

Description	US MTurk respondents (2021; 1,458, of whom 1,249 form the authors' quota sample) chose four times between two hypothetical societies varying bottom-20%, middle-60% and top-20% incomes and upward income mobility, under a 'distant society' or 'nearby society' framing.
Reference	Lara E., B., & Shores, K. A. (2024). Measuring preferences for income equality and income mobility. Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(6), 1542-1557.
DOI	10.1162/rest_a_01240
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QRQNCF

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint). choice: forced choice between hypothetical Society A and Society B (wording not deposited; paraphrase), no opt-out; 4 tasks, 4 attributes each drawn from 9 values ($ incomes for bottom 20%/middle 60%/top 20%, % upward mobility); screens also showed the computed average income and 90/10 ratio (not stored). trial_framing distant/nearby society (80/20, per respondent). Source A/B column labels are swapped against the README; positions inferred. Full sample of 1,458 kept with cov_preferred_sample for the article's 1,249 and both raked weights.

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Design

Topic	tax welfare economy
A profile represents	place
Country	US
Language shown	en
Language of stored levels	en
Task order	recorded in the deposit
Profile position	inferred from row order

Task order or profile position was rebuilt from row order; analyses of position or task order should leave it out.

Outcomes:

choice	Choose between two hypothetical societies, A and B (paraphrase) [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_bottom20_incomeattr_middle60_incomeattr_mobilityattr_top20_incomechoicecov_agecov_belief_mobility_commoncov_diag_pctrightcov_duration_seccov_educationcov_future_mobilitycov_gendercov_household_incomecov_party_idcov_past_mobilitycov_personal_incomecov_preferred_samplecov_racecov_survey_weightcov_weight_preferredidprofiletasktrial_framing

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("lara_2024_equality_mobility", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("lara_2024_equality_mobility", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Lara_E__2024, title={Measuring Preferences for Income Equality and Income Mobility}, volume={106}, ISSN={1530-9142}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01240}, DOI={10.1162/rest_a_01240}, number={6}, journal={Review of Economics and Statistics}, publisher={MIT Press}, author={Lara E., Bernardo and Shores, Kenneth A.}, year={2024}, month=Nov, pages={1542–1557} }

Respondents	1,458
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	11,664
Tasks per respondent (most)	4
Profiles per task	2
Attributes	4
Tasks with no profile chosen	0

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v4.2
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0

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