Information about inequality in early child care reduces polarization in policy preferences

IF 2.3 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Henning Hermes , Philipp Lergetporer , Fabian Mierisch , Guido Schwerdt , Simon Wiederhold
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Abstract

We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n4,800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by respondents’ age and right-wing voting preferences. Randomly providing information about the actual extent of inequalities has a nuanced impact on the support for equity-enhancing policy reforms: it increases support for respondents who initially underestimated these inequalities, and tends to decrease support for those who initially overestimated them. This asymmetric effect leads to a more consensual policy view, substantially decreasing the polarization in policy support between under- and overestimators. Our results suggest that correcting misperceptions can align public policy preferences, potentially leading to less polarized debates about how to address inequalities and discrimination.
有关幼儿保育不平等的信息可减少政策偏好的两极分化
我们通过对具有代表性的德国人口样本(n≈4,800)进行调查实验,研究了公众对早期儿童保育方面的公平促进政策的偏好。我们观察到,受访者对移民与本地人在幼儿保育方面的不平等存在强烈的误解,这种误解因受访者的年龄和右翼投票偏好而异。随机提供有关不平等实际程度的信息,会对促进公平的政策改革的支持率产生微妙的影响:它会增加最初低估这些不平等的受访者的支持率,而往往会降低最初高估这些不平等的受访者的支持率。这种非对称效应使政策观点更加一致,大大减少了低估者和高估者之间政策支持的两极分化。我们的研究结果表明,纠正错误认知可以调整公共政策偏好,从而有可能减少关于如何解决不平等和歧视问题的两极分化辩论。
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9.10%
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.
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