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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580916
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133857
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621433
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Current emotion research in economics
Wälde, Klaus; Moors, Agnes - 2016
psychological approaches to emotion research. Ways how to reduce this gap are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543809
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Testing the advantages of conscious vs. unconscious thought for complex decisions in a distraction free paradigm
McElroy, Todd; Dickinson, David L. - 2016
In this study we test predictions from Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT) that unconscious thought will lead to better decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we use a method of manipulating conscious and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580853
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Smog, cognition and real-world decision making
Chen, Xi - 2018
Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946797
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The effect of outside temperature on criminal court sentencing decisions
Evans, Sally; Siminski, Peter - 2020
Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179342
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The influence of dietary patterns on outcomes in a Bayesian choice task
Dickinson, David L.; Garbuio, Caleb - 2021
incentivized decision task involves Bayesian assessments where participants may use existing (base rate) as well as new information … to an increased imbalance in how the participant weighted the two sources of information available. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430659
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608458