Arbeitspapier
Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
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 inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education policies, which is generally high. The small treatment effects are not due to respondents’ failure to connect policies with educational inequality or aversion against government interventions. Support for compulsory preschool is the one policy with a strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7192
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Distribution: General
National Government Expenditures and Education
Education and Inequality
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
- Subject
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inequality
education
information
survey experiment
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lergetporer, Philipp
Werner, Katharina
Wößmann, Ludger
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Lergetporer, Philipp
- Werner, Katharina
- Wößmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2018
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