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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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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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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277212
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969323
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Consumer sentiment during the Covid-19 pandemic : the role of others' beliefs
Bui, Dzung; Dräger, Lena; Hayo, Bernd; Giang Hong Nghiem - 2021
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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Relative performance feedback and long-term tasks : experimental evidence from higher education
Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, Robert - 2023
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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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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