Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Cattaneo, Maria
Author-Name: Lergetporer, Philipp
Author-Name: Schwerdt, Guido
Author-Name: Werner, Katharina 
Author-Name: Woessmann, L.
Author-Name: Wolter, Stefan C.
Title: Information provision and preferences for education spending: Evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries
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.
Classification-JEL: h52,i22,d72,d83
Series: GSBE Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 20190101
Number: 027
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/38570417/RM19027.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 587412
Handle: Repec:unm:umagsb:2019027
DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2019027