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political economy of redistribution and the potential for information interventions to shift support for fiscal adjustment …
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A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...
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A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033460
decisive for the political feasibility of asylum policies, little is known about how these attitudes are shaped by information … Germany in which we randomly provide information about refugees' education level. Information provision strongly increases … respondents' beliefs that refugees are well educated. The information also increases labor market competition concerns, decreases …
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pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both treatments contain cross-country information about others' beliefs … Thailand, whereas the second treatment is rather symmetric. We find that the information treatments affect consumer sentiment … sentiment in Vietnam is strongly affected by both treatments when the information goes against respondents' prior beliefs. …
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Bitcoin is associated with different risks. We conduct an information experiment in the four largest European economies … to analyze the effects of specific warnings and information on retail investors’ demand for Bitcoin. Our results indicate … that the impact is strongest when warnings point to privacy issues. Information on the lack of guarantees or on CO2 …
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Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a hypothetical scenario, we document that the majority of girls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499686
pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both treatments contain cross-country information about others' beliefs … Thailand, whereas the second treatment is rather symmetric. We find that the information treatments affect consumer sentiment … sentiment in Vietnam is strongly affected by both treatments when the information goes against respondents’ prior beliefs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500548
Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a hypothetical scenario, we document that most girls expect to work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298681
We conduct a survey experiment on the effect of information provision on attitudes towards immigration in Germany. The … preferences. Using probability-based representative survey data, we experimentally vary the quantity and the type of information … provided to respondents. We find that a bundle of information on both the share and the unemployment rate of foreigners …
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