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Conducting Qualitative Interviews with AI
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 10666
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Information about Fewer Audits Reduces Support for Economic Relief Programs
In: NHH Dept. of Business and Management Science Discussion Paper No. 2021/2
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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 8401
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Beliefs About Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 7828
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Beliefs about Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies
We examine whether information about racial discrimination causally affects support for pro-black policies. Using representative samples of Americans, we elicit quantitative and incentivized beliefs about the extent of hiring discrimination against blacks. Relative to Republicans, Democrats think that blacks have to send out 47 percent more resumes than whites to receive a callback. An information treatment substantially narrows Republican–Democrat differences in beliefs, but fails to narrow differences in political behavior. Overall, the results demonstrate that correcting biases in beliefs about the extent of racial discrimination is not sufficient to reduce political polarization in support for pro-black policies.
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Beliefs About Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies
In: NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 02/2019
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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration
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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration
Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then provide respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration. Treated respondents update their beliefs and become more supportive of immigration, as measured by self-reported policy views and petition signatures. Treatment effects also persist in an obfuscated follow-up study. Our results demonstrate that information about the labor market impact of immigration causally affects support for immigration.
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The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns Versus Belief Confirmation Motives
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 134, Heft 661, S. 1806-1834
ISSN: 1468-0297
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We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news. In experiments with US voters, we first vary beliefs about whether an outlet reports the news in a right-wing biased, left-wing biased or unbiased way. We then measure demand for a newsletter covering articles from this outlet. Right-wing voters strongly reduce their demand for left-wing biased news, but not for right-wing biased news. The reverse patterns hold for left-wing voters. These results suggest a trade-off between accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives. We quantify this trade-off using a structural model and find a similar quantitative importance of both motives.
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns Versus Belief Confirmation Motives
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 9673
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Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from US Democrats
In: Chopra, Felix, Haaland, Ingar and Roth, Christopher (2022). Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from US Democrats. J. Public Econ., 205. LAUSANNE: ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA. ISSN 0047-2727
In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an ideologically aligned source, even though fact-checking increases the perceived accuracy of the newsletter. The aver-age impact of fact-checking masks substantial heterogeneity by ideology: fact-checking reduces demand among Democrats with strong ideological views and increases demand among ideologically moderate Democrats. Furthermore, fact-checking increases demand among all Democrats when the newsletter fea-tures stories from an ideologically non-aligned source. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Do People Demand Fact-Checked News? Evidence from U.S. Democrats
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 9405
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