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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs: Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

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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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

To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...

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The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...

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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...

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Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Schwerdt, Guido; Werner, Katharina; … - 2016

The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide treatment groups with information on current spending...

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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

Do differences in citizens' policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques...

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The Formation of Risk Preferences through Small-Scale Events

Angerer, Silvia; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2021

Large, macroeconomic shocks in the past have been shown to influence economic decisions in the present. We study in an experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In line with a reinforcement learning model, we...

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