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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior : Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Sutter, Matthias - 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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Do Natives' Beliefs About Refugees' Education Level Affect Attitudes Toward Refugees? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018

refugees' characteristics. We conducted survey experiments with more than 5,000 university students in Germany in which we … exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees' education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018

experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …

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Information and Preferences for Public Spending : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2016

' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide …

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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

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