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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016

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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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

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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Zika virus prevalence, correlates and preventive behaviors : new evidence from survey data

Carvalho Júnior, José Raimundo de Araújo; Oliveira, … - 2017

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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Neighborhood dynamics and the housing price effects of spatially targeted economic development policy

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2009

Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...

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Women political leaders, corruption and learning : evidence from a large public program in India

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M. R. - 2013

We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...

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Telecommunications dynamics, output and employment

Jungmittag, Andre (contributor); … - 2006

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic production function is the analytical starting point...

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Political institutions and the development of telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta (contributor); … - 2007

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in...

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Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...

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Downloading wisdom from online crowds

Saiz, Albert (contributor); Simonsohn, Uri (contributor) - 2008

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771906

The focusing and informational effects of norms on pro-social behavior

Krupka, Erin (contributor); Weber, Roberto A. (contributor) - 2007

This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a "focusing" influence, whereby norms only impact behavior when an individual's attention is drawn...

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