Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as
perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical …

Perceptions about others play an important role in sha** people's attitudes and behaviors,
as well as social norms more broadly. This review presents a meta-analysis of the recent …

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative
sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of …

Diversification of police forces is widely promoted as a reform for reducing racial disparities
in police–civilian interactions and increasing police legitimacy. Despite these potential …

Is opposition to immigration deeply entrenched or is it open to updating in the face of new
information? We explore this question by examining how attitudes of native citizens shift …

We examine how beliefs about the debt-to-GDP ratio affect people's attitudes towards
government spending and taxation. Using representative samples of the US population, we …

I conduct a survey experiment to study the relationship between people's beliefs about the
size of the gender wage gap and their demand for policies aimed at mitigating it. Beliefs …

Motivated reasoning posits that people distort how they process information in the direction
of beliefs they find attractive. This paper creates a novel experimental design to identify …

This paper studies how beliefs about racial inequalities and their causes vary and shape
support for race-targeted and redistribution policies among Black and white Americans …