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 …

focus on crime perceptions and, combining channel-specific viewership and content data, we show that the reduced exposure to … channels characterized by high levels of crime reporting decreases individual concerns about crime. The effect is driven by … individuals aged 50 and over, who turn out to be more exposed to television while using other sources of information less …

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 …