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Pay-As-They-Get-In: Attitudes Towards Migrants and Pension Systems
Boeri, Tito; Gamalerio, Matteo; Morelli, Massimo; … - 2023
We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go pension systems and recent demographic trends in the hosting country affects natives' attitudes towards immigration. In two online experiments in Italy and Spain, we randomly treated participants with a video explaining how,...
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The Role of Information Provision for Attitudes Towards Immigration: An Experimental Investigation.
Bareinz, Patrick; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2020
We conduct a survey experiment on the effect of information provision on attitudes towards immigration in Germany. The focus lies on two theory-based economic channels, labor market and welfare state concerns, and immigration policy preferences. Using probability-based representative survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314922
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Pension Reform Preferences in Germany: Does Information Matter?
Schuetz, Jana; Uebelmesser, Silke; Baginski, Ronja; … - 2022
impact of prior beliefs on the treatment effects. As the salience and the information treatments barely differ, we conclude …
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Have you heard the news? How real-life expectations react to publicity
van der Wiel, Karen - 2009
As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277212
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Have You Heard the News? How Real-Life Expectations React to Publicity
van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969323
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Biased Beliefs about Immigration and Economic Concerns: Evidence from Representative Experiments
Dylong, Patrick; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2022
We investigate the link between biased beliefs about immigrants, economic concerns and policy preferences. Conducting … representative survey experiments with more than 8000 respondents, we first document substantial biases in respondents' beliefs about … heterogeneity, we find that prior beliefs about immigration explain conditional average treatment effects. While attitudinal change …
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Relative Performance Feedback and Long-Term Tasks – Experimental Evidence from Higher Education
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jaeckle, Robert - 2023
We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and...
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Ambiguity Attitudes and Surprises: Experimental Evidence on Communicating New Information within a Large Population Sample
Minnich, Aljoscha; Roggenkamp, Hauke; Lange, Andreas - 2023
This paper investigates ambiguity attitudes for natural events (temperatures) and how they are updated following new information. Using a general population sample, we first obtain baseline ambiguity attitudes for future weather events based on real temperatures over several past days. Second,...
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Consumer Sentiment during the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Others' Beliefs
Bui, Dzung; Dräger, Lena; Hayo, Bernd; Nghiem, Giang - 2021
This paper investigates the direct and indirect effects of others’ beliefs on respondents’ own beliefs and consumer … pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both treatments contain cross-country information about others’ beliefs … sentiment in Vietnam is strongly affected by both treatments when the information goes against respondents’ prior beliefs. …
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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017
bequests. This leads us to explore the role of beliefs, financial literacy and portfolio decisions in explaining this genetic … gradient in wealth.We show that individuals with lower genetic scores are more prone to reporting "extreme beliefs" (e …
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