objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety and …Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of …

objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety and …Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of …

Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This … politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual determinants of participation in crime are rarely understood by the … public. In this paper, we employ a survey experiment conducted in Chile in order to examine how the provision of information …

Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This … politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual determinants of participation in crime are rarely understood by the … public. In this paper, we employ a survey experiment conducted in Chile in order to examine how the provision of information …

We conduct a replication of Settele (2022), a online survey experiment designed to find out how individual's beliefs … about the gender wage gap affect their policy preferences. We reproduce Results 1 and 2 of the study: how prior beliefs … around the wage gap are distributed among individuals and how a information treatment causally affects the policy demand. Our …

We conduct a replication of Settele (2022), a online survey experiment designed to find out how individual's beliefs … about the gender wage gap affect their policy preferences. We reproduce Results 1 and 2 of the study: how prior beliefs … around the wage gap are distributed among individuals and how a information treatment causally affects the policy demand. Our …

Crime has tangible economic costs. It also has less understood and likely sizable intangible costs. In particular …, widespread crime has the potential to weaken trust between citizens and institutions, undermine government reform efforts, and … become an obstacle to development. Yet, the impact of crime on trust remains relatively unexplored in the literature. This …