preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased … 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 …

comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information … treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 …

We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and …

-native inequalities in early child care that vary by respondents' age and right-wing voting preferences. Randomly providing information …

Germany. We show that information about tax allowances increases demand for higher taxes and shifts public opinion from …We study the effects of information on attitudes towards inheritance taxation using survey experiments fielded in … alteration of people's expectations of being affected by such taxes. In contrast, information highlighting the increasing …

place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …