Scholars of policy feedback are increasingly relying on more advanced methodological techniques and access to an array of rich datasets to gain better leverage over the causal questions of interest to them. Most of these advances in the study of feedback effects, however, have still focused primarily on social welfare provision. Perhaps the next step is to extend these techniques to study how other types of policies shape the attitudes and behavior of beneficiaries as well as the broader impact of policies on the views of citizens generally, not only those affected directly.
