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People’s Understanding of Inflation
This paper studies people’s understanding of inflation — their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs — and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey based on the rich existing literature in economics with two experimental components — a conjoint experiment and an information experiment —
People’s Understanding of Inflation
This paper studies people’s understanding of inflation — their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs — and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey based on the rich existing literature in economics with two experimental components — a conjoint experiment and an information experiment —
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- Author(s): Alberto Binetti, Francesco Nuzzi, Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies people’s understanding of inflation — their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs — and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey based on the rich existing literature...
- Author(s): Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper provides new evidence on a long-standing question asked by Shiller (1997): Why do we dislike inflation? I conducted two surveys on representative samples of the US population to elicit people’s perceptions about the...
- Author(s): Pierfrancesco Mei, Roberto Colarieti, Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies how and why households adjust their spending, saving, and borrowing in response to transitory income shocks. We leverage new large-scale survey data to first quantitatively assess households' intertemporal marginal propensities to consume...
- Author(s): Nathan Nunn, Sahil Chinoy, Sandra Sequeira, Stefanie Stantcheva
We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking -- the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of a representative sample...
Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change...
- Author(s): Alberto Alesina, Matteo Ferroni, Stefanie Stantcheva
We investigate how respondents perceive racial inequities between Black and white Americans, what they believe causes them, and what interventions, if any, they think should be implemented to reduce them....
- Author(s): Stefanie Stantcheva
I study how people understand and reason about trade, and what factors shape their views on trade policy. ...
- Author(s): Stefanie Stantcheva
Using large-scale online surveys and experiments on representative U.S. samples, we study how well people understand, reason, and learn about four economic policies: i) Personal income taxation, ii) Estate taxation, iii) Health insurance, and iv)...
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