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Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra - 2019
comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859054
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Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra - 2019
comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859303
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Information and Preferences for Public Spending : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2016
The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters … treatment groups with information on current spending levels. Results show that such information strongly reduces support for … public spending in various domains from social security to defense. Data on prior information status on school spending and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987358
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Information and Preferences for Public Spending : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2016
The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters … treatment groups with information on current spending levels. Results show that such information strongly reduces support for … public spending in various domains from social security to defense. Data on prior information status on school spending and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989837
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Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition : Evidence from Representative Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …Higher education finance depends on the public’s preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224098
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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth
Ponzetto, Giacomo; Troiano, Ugo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851377
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Social capital, government expenditures, and growth
Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Troiano, Ugo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652113
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Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition : Evidence from Representative Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014355004
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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth
Ponzetto, Giacomo AM; Troiano, Ugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under-invest in education, whose returns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084642
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What You Don't Know Can't Help You: Lessons of Behavioural Economics for Tax-Based Student Aid
Neill, Christine - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2013) 393
Canada’s federal and provincial governments spend a lot of money subsidizing postsecondary students. Tuition and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010855073