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Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2018

This paper experimentally investigates how concerns for social approval relate to intrinsic motivations to purchase ethically. Participants state their willingness-to-pay for both a fair trade and a conventional chocolate bar in private or publicly. A standard model of social image predicts that...

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Fairness in Markets and Market Experiments

Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018

Whether pro-social preferences identified in economic laboratories survive in natural market contexts is an important and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates to preferences for fair trade products before and after...

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Social Image Concerns and Welfare Take-Up

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2018

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how...

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Ignorance, Intention and Stochastic Outcomes

Friedrichsen, Jana; Momsen, Katharina; Piasenti, Stefano - 2022

outcome affect the principal's actions and whether principals use hidden information as an excuse to behave more selfishly. We … tend to select into information based on their inclination to behave more prosocially. While information avoidance is … frequent and selfishness is higher with hidden information, we do not find evidence of a strategic exploitation of moral wiggle …

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Motivated Procrastination

Cordes, Charlotte; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

to complete. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of `motivated procrastination'. In a …, and looms largest for decision makers who tend to not acquire information that may include negative news. …

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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 - 2018

. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …

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

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. …

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

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

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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The political economy of higher education finance: How information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public … support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the … German electorate (N>19,500). The electorate is divided, with a slight plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on …

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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …

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