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Have you heard the news? : how real-life expectations react to publicity
Wiel, Karen van der - 2009
As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824962
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Public opinion on education policy in Germany
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2017
To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education policies ranging from early childhood education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724443
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Does information change attitudes towards immigrants? : representative evidence from survey experiments
Grigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher; Ubfal, Diego - 2016
representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the share of immigrants in their country, they become less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594707
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What drives attitudes toward immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from Uganda and Senegal
Becker, Malte; Krüger, Finja; Heidland, Tobias - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462137
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Does a tragic event affect different aspects of attitudes toward immigration?
Heizler, Odelia; Israeli, Osnat - 2024
Dramatic events can evoke feelings of compassion, fear, or threat, and can affect public opinion regarding … timing of the European Social Survey in Portugal allowed us to use this tragic event as a natural experiment. Our results … attitudes. The results suggest that the event did not change the respondents' opinion regarding the possible negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487228
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Preferences, intentions, and expectations: a large-scale experiment with a representative subject pool
Bellemare, Charles (contributor);  … - 2007
We specify and estimate an econometric model which separately identifies distributional preferences and the effects of perceived intentions on responder behavior in the ultimatum game. We allow the effects of perceived intentions to depend, among other things, on the subjective probabilities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561614
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Do laws shape attitudes? : evidence from same-sex relationship recognition policies in Europe
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2018
Understanding whether laws shape or simply reflect citizens' attitudes is important but empirically difficult. We provide new evidence on this question by studying the relationship between legal same-sex relationship recognition policies (SSRRPs) and attitudes toward sexual minorities in Europe....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896786
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How civilian attitudes respond to the state's violence: lessons from the Israel-Gaza conflict
Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Abrahams, Alexei - 2021
, have inflicted hardship on the civilian population. We combine Palestinian public opinion data, Palestinian labor force … public opinion between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank during periods of intense punishment with the gap during periods when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648941
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Public opinion on immigration in Europe : preference versus salience
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017
There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the … of public opinion move differently over time and in response to different macro-level variables. The results suggest that … both dimensions need to be taken into account when assessing the overall climate of public opinion towards immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671014
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Second-generation immigrants and native attitudes toward immigrants in Europe
Barrera, Oscar; Bensidoun, Isabelle; Edo, Anthony - 2022
This paper investigates the role played by immigrants and their children in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant integration, we show that countries with a relatively high share of immigrants are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013272268