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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It's time for another Encode/Decode! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, & @jacobnyrup.bsky.social use original #survey #data to explore #inheritance #taxation and its impact on #wealth #inequality: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Marginal Inheritance Tax Rates by Multiple of GDP Per Capita in Eighteen Advanced Democracies

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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

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Matthias Haslberger @mhaslberger.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thrilled to see our paper (with @madselk.bsky.social and @benansell.bsky.social) out in West European Politics!

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Homeownership and political efficacy: how housing wealth shapes whether people feel heard doi.org/10.1080/0140... Paper in @wepsocial.bsky.social by Associate Member @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @madselk.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @benansell.bsky.social

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We've talked to the team at @worldpolitics.bsky.social about our recent paper on inheritance taxation. This is what came out of it. Have a look!

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Figure 3 from "Why is it so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality" illustrates how people with low #wealth are much less likely to have an opinion about #inheritance #taxation than people with high wealth @madselk.bsky.social @benansell.bsky.social @aslicansunar.bsky.social @mhaslberger.bsky.social

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

If anything, the electoral incentives point to further lowering a tax that is highly unpopular among those who hold opinions, families of homeowners. Countering wealth inequality through inheritance taxation is thus likely to be electorally very challenging for governments 13/13

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Our findings help make sense of why governments don’t do more to address wealth inequality: since those who should be most supportive of inheritance taxation hold either no or ambivalent preferences, governments lack strong electoral incentives to implement higher taxes 12/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

And while information on how higher taxes can increase equality of opportunity had little impact, arguments that the inheritance tax is a 'death' or 'double' tax lowered support for higher taxes 11/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

These treatments lowered “don’t know” answers among low-wealth individuals and also affected support for inheritance taxation. Information that higher inheritance taxation could lead to lower income taxes or better public goods provisions increased support for the tax 10/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

In a follow-up survey, we therefore implemented much more direct treatments that informed respondents about some of the most popular arguments for and against inheritance taxation 9/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

First, we test the effect of statistical information about house prices. We find no effect of our treatments, suggesting that factual information about wealth inequality does address the root cause of why some respondents are unable to formulate views on inheritance taxation 8/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

In a second step, we assess whether different kinds of information can help low-wealth individuals to express an opinion consistent with their material interest in higher inheritance taxes 7/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It helps explain why governments, despite high and rising levels of wealth inequality, have not done more to alleviate it: Public opinion is disproportionately driven by informed and mobilized families of homeowners, who support low inheritance taxes 6/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Combined, these findings raise what we call "the paradox of inheritance taxation": the people who would stand to benefit the most from higher inheritance taxes are those least likely to be informed and hold an opinion on the issue 5/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Whereas about only 2 in 5 low-wealth individuals expressed an opinion in our surverys, about 19 of 20 high-wealth individuals did. AND not only were respondents of high wealth more likely to express an opinion, they also supported lower inheritance taxes 4/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Crucially for the electoral politics of inheritance taxation, individuals from families of low wealth (renters and their children) were much less likely to register an opinion compared to those from high-wealth families (homeowners and their children) 3/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A core reason governments are reluctant to counteract wealth inequality through inheritance taxation, we argue, is that many people have never thought much about their views of the tax. In our surveys of the UK, about 40% answered “don’t know” to our questions about it 2/n

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Did you ever wonder why governments don’t do more to counteract wealth inequality? In our new @worldpolitics.bsky.social article, we seek to answer this question, studying the electoral politics of inheritance taxation muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 1/n

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Really fantastic contribution by @madselk.bsky.social and @cbwlezien.bsky.social for applied researchers thinking about how to write questions. Attentive to respondent user experience by specific mode, differences across topics, and implications for substantive research findings

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Haha men lidt grotesk alligevel :)

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Mads Andreas Elkjær @madselk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

På trods af jeg underviser i statskundskab på KU og bedømmer dusinvis af opgaver hvert semester er jeg tilsyneladende ikke god nok til at blive en del af det danske censorkorps. Men jeg kan jo altid søge igen til februar 2029..

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