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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; Übelmesser, 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...

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Pension reform preferences in Germany : does information matter?

Schuetz, Jana; Übelmesser, 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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Designing information provision experiments

Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2020

discuss the measurement of subjective beliefs, including the role of incentives and ways to reduce measurement error. We also …

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Choosing and using information in evaluation decisions

Coffman, Katherine B.; Kostyshak, Scott; Saygın, … - 2024

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

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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...

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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

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Optimal Income Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article explores subjects in optimal income taxation characterized by recent research interest, practical importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the analysis highlights paths for further investigation....

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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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Biased beliefs about immigration and economic concerns : evidence from representative experiments

Dylong, Patrick; Übelmesser, 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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