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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...
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impact of prior beliefs on the treatment effects. As the salience and the information treatments barely differ, we conclude …
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beliefs about a candidate after acquiring more information, and persists in final evaluations. This bias has a significantly …
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discuss the measurement of subjective beliefs, including the role of incentives and ways to reduce measurement error. We also …
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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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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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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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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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different beliefs about how policy choices will map into future economic outcomes. We show that when the incumbent party can …-serving behavior by political parties, but rather stems from their differing beliefs about the consequences of their actions. …
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Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future …
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