This paper, via the analysis of stated preferences from a nationwide representative survey of 1,100 adults, examines the determinants of preference for overall government expenditure and estimates a Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) model of demand for the three major categories of public...

Many papers examine general level preferences for redistribution. However, few papers examine preferences for specific forms of redistribution. This paper examines the decomposition of demand for three major categories of social welfare expenditure in Ireland: unemployment payments, old age...

This paper reports the results of a nationally representative survey that assessed individual and household willingness to pay extra taxes for increased levels of social transfers in Ireland. Different respondents interpret willingness-to-pay questions as referring to individual or household...

This paper reports the results of a nationally representative survey that explored willingness to pay extra taxes for increased levels of social transfers in Ireland. Respondents differ in their interpretation of willingness-to-pay questions with respect to the relevant income constraint being...

Irish public service broadcasting faces enhanced domestic and international competition and, increasingly the Irish public service broadcaster (RTE) is being called upon to justify the scale of the television licence fee, its major source of funding. This paper describes the first nationwide...