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Age, Intentions and the Implicit Role of Out-Selection Factors of International Migration.

Beine, Michel - 2020

In this paper, I propose to isolate the role of age as a self-selection factor of international migration. The role of age is estimated on intended emigration rather than on observed outcomes of migration, using individual measures of intended emigration drawn from a large-scale survey conducted...

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The Devil You Know: Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices when Prior Information Matters

Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023

In the seminal rational inattention model of Matĕjka and McKay (2015), logit demand arises from the discrete choice of … (RI-logit). A notable limitation of this powerful framework is the lack of known general closed-form solutions, allowing … the decision maker's prior information to differ across choices. In this paper, I solve the RI-logit model analytically …

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Bounded Rationality and Socially Optimal Limits on Choice in a Self-Selection Model

Sheshinski, Eytan - 2003

When individuals choose from whatever alternatives available to them the one that maximizes their utility then it is always desirable that the government provide them with as many alternatives as possible. Individuals, however, do not always choose what is best for them and their mistakes may be...

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Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in Aging Populations

Comertpay, Rana - 2019

This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...

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Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the COVID19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...

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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology

Enke, Benjamin - 2019

Throughout the Western world, people's policy preferences are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. Based on a simple model, we propose that what partly explains the particular internal structure of political ideology is heterogeneity in moral universalism: the extent to...

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Beliefs About Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies

Haaland, Ingar - 2019

We examine whether information about racial discrimination causally affects support for pro-black policies. Using representative samples of Americans, we elicit quantitative and incentivized beliefs about the extent of hiring discrimination against blacks. Relative to Republicans, Democrats...

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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021

We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research should embrace and (ii) which topics it should study. Almost 10,000 economic researchers from all fields and ranks of the profession participated in our global survey. Detailed...

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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021

We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...

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Does Expert Information Affect Citizens' Attitudes Toward Corona Policies? Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, … - 2021

Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...

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