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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932975
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141855
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Obstacles to efficient allocations of public education spending: Evidence from a representative survey experiment
Werner, Katharina - 2018
levels to spending on early and primary education. Effects of information provision persist over a two-week period in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985272
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Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-market Expectations, and Willingness to Train
Lergetporer, Philipp; Wedel, Katharina; Werner, Katharina - 2023
automation risk of their occupation, especially those in high-automatability occupations. Randomized information about their … in their work environment. The information also increases willingness to participate in further training, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467794
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Transparency and Policy Competition: Experimental Evidence from German Citizens and Politicians
Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023
misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …' educational performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467803
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932956
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Prices versus quantities with morally concerned consumers
Schmidt, Klaus M.; Herweg, Fabian - 2021
It is widely believed that an environmental tax (price regulation) and cap-and-trade (quantity regulation) are equally efficient in controlling pollution when there is no uncertainty. We show that this is not the case if some consumers (firms, local governments) are morally concerned about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504519
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197534
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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
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 … opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs and unequal access does not affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141851
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Self-persuasion: Evidence from field experiments at international debating competitions
Schwardmann, Peter; Tripodi, Egon; van der Weele, Joël J. - 2022
Laboratory evidence shows that when people have to argue for a given position, they persuade themselves about the position's factual and moral superiority. Such self-persuasion limits the potential of communication to resolve conflict and reduce polarization. We test for this phenomenon in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197546