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The politics of public service reform : experimental evidence from Liberia

Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2023

This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy. Despite significantly improving school quality, the policy reduced the incumbent party's presidential vote share by 3 percentage points (10%). This does not imply that voters...

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Nudging for prompt tax penalty payment : evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia

Yogama, Eko Arief; Gray, Daniel J.; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2023

, information, or simplification letter, or no letter. Our results indicate that simplification, which makes paying a penalty less …, increasing timely settlement rates by 27 per cent. The least effective intervention is the information letter. Although …

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The economics of attention

Loewenstein, George F.; Wojtowicz, Zachary - 2023

Attention is a pivotal resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain numerous documented violations of classical...

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Do people demand fact-checked news? : evidence from U.S. democrats

Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021

In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...

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Spreading consensus : correcting misperceptions about the views of the medical community has lasting impacts on Covid-19 vaccine take-up

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2022

the vaccines. Finally, we integrate randomized provision of information about the true views held by doctors into a … vaccine demand: individuals who receive the information are 4 percentage points more likely to be vaccinated nine months after …

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Voting advice applications and elections

Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino L.; Schelker, Mark; … - 2021

and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information …

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The demand for fact-checking

Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021

Using a large-scale online experiment with more than 8,000 U.S. respondents, we examine how the demand for a politics newsletter changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...

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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …

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Behavioral barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021

application information and personal assistance for applications. For lower-SES families, the treatment increases child care …

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Social norms and misinformation : experimental evidence on learning about menstrual health management in rural Bangladesh

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021

health and hygiene explicitly, and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We then provide an information intervention on … are well matched to reported adverse health behavior. The information intervention helps to correct harmful social norms …

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