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Does information change attitudes towards immigrants? : representative evidence from survey experiments
Grigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher; Ubfal, Diego - 2016
of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …
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News, emotions, and policy views on immigration
Manzoni, Elena; Murard, Elie; Quercia, Simone; Tonini, Sara - 2024
How do emotions affect policy views on immigration? How do they influence the way people process and respond to factual …) sensational news about immigrant crimes, (ii) statistical information about immigration, or to (iii) the combination of both … young woman significantly increases the demand for anti-immigration policies, there is no impact of the news of a petty …
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Does information change attitudes towards immigrants? : representative evidence from survey experiments
Grigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher; Ubfal, Diego - 2016 - This version: 5 December, 2016
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Forced Federalism : States as Laboratories of Immigration Reform
Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016
This Article questions the experimental value of state immigration laws. Analyzing the Supreme Court’s major decisions … in this area, including Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, the Article explains why state immigration laws fail to satisfy … problems. Unfortunately, state immigration laws do not meet these criteria because states operate in a system of “forced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173984
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New evidence on international transferability of human capital
Gibbons, Eric M.; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/9, pp. 1-39
This article sheds new light on the portability of human capital. We estimate the returns to source country experiences, viz., general, occupation-specific, and task-specific experiences, using data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), conducted in 2003. While the "returns to general experience"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303199
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When do fiscal consolidations lead to consumption booms? : lessons from a laboratory experiment
Geiger, Martin; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Scharler, Johann - 2015
According to the expectations channel, a fiscal consolidation may give rise to less contractionary, or even expansionary effects on consumption, despite a decline in current disposable income. Intuitively, people may accumulate a stock of savings in anticipation of the consolidation and may...
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The "expectations view" on fiscal policy : an experiment using real world data
Bernasconi, Michele; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2001
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Behavioral New Keynesian models : learning vs. cognitive discounting
Meggiorini, Greta; Milani, Fabio - 2021
This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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Ideology, deliberation and persuasion within small groups : a randomized field experiment on fiscal policy
Esterling, Kevin M.; Fung, Archon; Lee, Taeku - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190586
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When do fiscal consolidations lead to consumption booms? : lessons from a laboratory experiment
Geiger, Martin; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Scharler, Johann - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 69 (2016), pp. 1-20
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