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

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo (), Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann and Stefan Wolter
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Maria Alejandra Cattaneo: Swiss Co-ordination Center for Research in Education

No 12749, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: education spending; United States; Germany; Switzerland; international cooperation; cross-country comparison; policy preferences; information; survey experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 D83 H52 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2019-11
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Published - published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101876

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Working Paper: Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries (2019)
Working Paper: Information provision and preferences for education spending: Evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries (2019)
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