impact of prior beliefs on the treatment effects. As the salience and the information treatments barely differ, we conclude …

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 …

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. …

beliefs about a candidate after acquiring more information, and persists in final evaluations. This bias has a significantly …

and treat correlated information as independent. In consequence, people's beliefs are excessively sensitive to well …-connected information sources, implying a pattern of overshooting beliefs. Additionally, in an experimental asset market, correlation …

Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future …

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise … beliefs about average earnings by professional degree and average public school spending. Incentive provision does not impact … earnings beliefs, but improves school-spending beliefs. Response patterns suggest that the latter effect likely reflects …