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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Higher education finance depends on the public’s preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190508
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate’s preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191568
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Did sanctions help Putin?
Peeva, Aleksandra - 2019
impact on voting. The US and the EU introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to Putin … effect on voting can be explained as rally-around-the-flag in the face of sanctions, as long as voters did not endure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016315
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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 (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033428
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Fair procedures with naive agents : who wants the Boston mechanism?
König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2019
We study preferences over procedures in the presence of naive agents. We employ a school choice setting following Pathak and Sönmez (2008) who show that sophisticated agents are better off under the Boston mechanism than under a strategy-proof mechanism if some agents are sincere. We use lab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139539
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Why should majority voting be unfair?
Breitmoser, Yves; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2017
The common use of majority rule in group decision making is puzzling. In theory, it inequitably favors the proposer, and paradoxically, it disadvantages voters further if they are inequity averse. In practice, however, outcomes are equitable. The present paper analyzes data from a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762571
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Minority protection in voting mechanisms : experimental evidence
Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter; Hoffmann, Timo; … - 2023
Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …
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(Dis)honesty and the value of transparency for campaign promises
Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
Promise competition is prevalent in many economic environments, but promise keeping is often difficult to observe. We study the value of transparency for promise competition and ask whether promises still offer an opportunity to honor future obligations when outcomes do not allow for observing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481101
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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding
Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023
We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495051
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Fairness in matching markets : experimental evidence
König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2023
for SD, but mainly when priorities are merit-based. Stated voting motives indicate that choosing SD is driven by concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495059