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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R. - 2016

We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences by implementing 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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Boycko, Maxim - 2016

We repeat a survey we did in the waning days of the Soviet Union (Shiller, Boycko and Korobov, AER 1991) comparing attitudes towards free markets between Moscow and New York. Additional survey questions, from Gibson Duch and Tedin (J. Politics 1992) are added to compare attitudes towards...

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Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy : What's Up? Is it Real?

Silk, Alvin J.; Berndt, Ernst R. - 2022

The two components of the advertising industry – the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the … communications technologies. As the media composition of advertising has changed in the last century for both local and national … advertising – from newspapers, outdoor and radio advertising to network and cable television, and most recently to internet and …

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The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change : A Rational and Behavioral Blend

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012

Over 250 respondents--graduate students in law and public policy--assessed the risks of climate change and valued climate-change mitigation policies. Many aspects of their behavior were consistent with rational behavior. For example, respondents successfully estimated distributions of...

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Preferences for Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General...

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Understanding Trust

Sapienza, Paola - 2010

Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question quot;Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?quot; to measure the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000)...

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Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2010

In the past two elections, richer people were more likely to vote Republican while richer states were more likely to vote Democratic. This switch is an aggregation reversal, where an individual relationship, like income and Republicanism, is reversed at some level of aggregation. Aggregation...

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Good Bye Lenin (or Not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the quot;experimentquot; of German separation and...

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Threats to Central Bank Independence : High-Frequency Identification with Twitter

Bianchi, Francesco - 2019

This paper presents market-based evidence that President Trump influences expectations about monetary policy. We use tick-by-tick fed funds futures data and a collection of Trump tweets criticizing the conduct of monetary policy and consistently advocating that the Fed lower interest rates....

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Business Reopening Decisions and Demand Forecasts During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Balla-Elliott, Dylan - 2020

How quickly will American businesses reopen after COVID-19 lockdowns end? We use a nationwide survey of small businesses to measure firms' expectations about their re-opening and future demand. A plurality of firms in our sample expect to reopen within days of the end of legal restrictions, but...

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