Arbeitspapier

Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Do differences in citizens' policy preferences hamper international cooperation in education policy? To gain comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 percent and for increased teacher salaries from 27 to 19 percent, respectively. The broad patterns of education policy preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7936

Classification
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
Subject
policy preferences
cross-country comparison
international cooperation
Switzerland
Germany
United States
education spending
information
survey experiments

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Cattaneo, Maria
Lergetporer, Philipp
Schwerdt, Guido
Werner, Katharina
Woessmann, Ludger
Wolter, Stefan C.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2019

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Cattaneo, Maria
  • Lergetporer, Philipp
  • Schwerdt, Guido
  • Werner, Katharina
  • Woessmann, Ludger
  • Wolter, Stefan C.
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2019

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