Arbeitspapier
How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is inversely related to salary levels across American states, suggesting that salary differences could explain much of Germans' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from class-size reduction towards alternative purposes.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10357
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Education
Educational Finance; Financial Aid
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- Thema
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policy preferences
cross-country comparison
Germany
United States
education spending
information
survey experiments
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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West, Martin R.
Woessmann, Ludger
Lergetporer, Philipp
Werner, Katharina
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- West, Martin R.
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Lergetporer, Philipp
- Werner, Katharina
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2016
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