Pre-analysis Plan: International Survey on Societal Preferences

A comprehensive survey that aims at answering several questions that are, in most instances, already predetermined by our specification of the conjoint experiment. The goal of the study is to examine, in separate studies (papers), the value that respondents put to several economic and institutional features or attributes of different societies -- as well as the main drivers of those preferences -- within and across 8 countries. Our main questions of interest are the following: 1. How do respondents value of democracy and public safety? How important are these outcomes to respondents relative to individual income and other societal attributes? 2. How important are income rank concerns? How do they drive preferences for a higher individual income, average country income, and different degrees of inequality? 3. What is the value of welfare provision (examined through a public health system) compared to other societal characteristics, and what are the main drivers of this value? 4. The impact of different societal arrangements on the migration intentions of respondents. 5. What is the role of beliefs on the sources of success---luck, income, connections---on political and social preferences, and their differences within and across countries? The study includes surveys in the following countries: Argentina, China, India, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa and the United States of America.