emphasis on technology innovation and dissemination has been cited as a possible cause of this problem. Information and …

We study the effects of information on attitudes towards inheritance taxation using survey experiments fielded in … Germany. We show that information about tax allowances increases demand for higher taxes and shifts public opinion from … alteration of people’s expectations of being affected by such taxes. In contrast, information highlighting the increasing …

information? We address these questions using a survey experiment in Italy, which randomly exposes around 7,000 participants to (i …) sensational news about immigrant crimes, (ii) statistical information about immigration, or to (iii) the combination of both … theft news, while having a similar effect on factual beliefs. Second, we document that information provision corrects …