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who are the victims of crime are subsequently more likely than non-victims to state that inequality is high in Argentina … and that the appropriate measure to reduce crime is to become less punitive (demanding lower penalties for the same crime). …
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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 …
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may have conveyed information about the importance of preventing Malaria and about how to do so, and people adjusted their …
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anticipation of tax bill approvals by exploiting the content of news in the US television. Since this information typically flows …
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We examine how beliefs about the debt-to-GDP ratio affect people's attitudes towards government spending and taxation … respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that …
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We review methodological questions relevant for the design of information provision experiments. We first provide a … literature review of major areas in which information provision experiments are applied. We then outline key measurement … challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …
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the vaccines. Finally, we integrate randomized provision of information about the true views held by doctors into a … were gradually rolled out. We find that the treatment recalibrates beliefs and leads to a lasting and stable increase in … vaccine demand: individuals who receive the information are 4 percentage points more likely to be vaccinated nine months after …
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