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We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go pension systems and recent demographic trends in the hosting country affects natives' attitudes towards immigration. In two online experiments in Italy and Spain, we randomly treated participants with a video explaining how,...
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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...
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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/10004969323
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
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The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985670
bequests. This leads us to explore the role of beliefs, financial literacy and portfolio decisions in explaining this genetic … gradient in wealth.We show that individuals with lower genetic scores are more prone to reporting "extreme beliefs" (e …
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The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature on taxation of capital in open economies does not focus directly on the political decision making process and assumes that the desired tax policy is responding to objective underlying tradeoffs....
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update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …
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Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future …
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A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise … beliefs about average earnings by professional degree and average public school spending. Incentive provision does not impact … earnings beliefs, but improves school-spending beliefs. Response patterns suggest that the latter effect likely reflects …
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