We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure … in a generalized difference in differences framework. We examine government documents articulating desired consequences …

protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we …, we find that some of the respondents' psychological traits are not filtered through their political ideology but directly … influence their proclaimed attitudes towards environment protection policies. We identify as important behavioral determinants …

. Contestable rents can also be found outside of government decisions. We describe the example of rents in academia in different … to influence a smaller number of decision makers. Ideology can influence whether rent seeking is recognized to exist. …

benefits to entrepreneurs, in the form of easier access to loans from state owned banks, reduced government expropriation …

ideology than when it targets the implementation of an outcome aligned with the ideology. Theoretically, we study whether fixed …

Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies …. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating …