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individuals aged 50 and over, who turn out to be more exposed to television while using other sources of information less …
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concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study … affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …
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Story telling is part of life, and the retelling of stories is an important form of communication, cultural practice, and message transmission. Insufficient sleep is known to affect relevant cognitive skill areas necessary for story retelling or transmission fidelity. We conducted a...
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education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …
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comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …
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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity …
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-native inequalities in early child care that vary by respondents' age and right-wing voting preferences. Randomly providing information …
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We study the effects of information on attitudes towards inheritance taxation using survey experiments fielded in … Germany. We show that information about tax allowances increases demand for higher taxes and shifts public opinion from … alteration of people's expectations of being affected by such taxes. In contrast, information highlighting the increasing …
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Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...
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