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are some 15-23 percent less likely to change attitudes radically towards the left or the right across different waves of …
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This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British … Election Study. We find a significant negative relationship between financial literacy and attitudes in favour of government … instrumental variable regressions. Falsification tests show that these results are independent of generic attitudes towards other …
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about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards …
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This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...
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Work Orientation module International Social Survey Programme to look at the attitudes of residents of these countries …
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anti-Semitic attitudes and incidents in recent decades. The latter is also depicted as being related to the Israeli … innate and fairly stable over the life cycle, examining adolescents' attitudes is vitally important because they can help us …
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negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a …
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This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...
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The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on …
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We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the … attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …-interest, as individual's inequality attitudes depend not only on how much income they receive but also on how much they receive …
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