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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Elinder, Mikael - 2012

Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of economic efficiency. Starting out from different...

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...

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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' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide treatment groups with information on current spending...

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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2015

investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a … to experiment with welfare policies than governors with low reputation. Yet, governors with high reputation who are less … concerned about reelection actually experiment more than governors striving for reelection. Overall, our findings imply that …

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News Media and Crime Perceptions : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mastrorocco, Nicola - 2018

question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment – the staggered introduction …

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Keep it Simple : A Field Experiment on Information Sharing Among Strangers

Batista, Catia; Fafchamps, Marcel; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2022

SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. We conduct a field experiment to study information sharing …

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Can Transparency of Information Reduce Embezzlement? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Falco, Salvatore - 2016

Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and reducing the number of intermediaries in transfer chains can reduce embezzlement and improve the...

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Trust, Values and False Consensus

Butler, Jeffrey - 2012

one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that … the values parents transmit to their children during their upbringing. In a second closely-related experiment, we show the …

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True Overconfidence, Revealed Through Actions : An Experiment

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2017

We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …

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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn : an Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Fischer, Mira - 2018

confidence in the ability to learn raises incentives, while confidence in the level of human capital lowers incentives for …

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