TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lergetporer, Philipp
AU  - Werner, Katharina
AU  - Woessmann, Ludger
        TI  - Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
        PY  - 2018/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11730
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11730
        AB  - To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education policies, which is generally high. The small treatment effects are not due to respondents' failure to connect policies with educational inequality or aversion against government interventions. Support for compulsory preschool is the one policy with a strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. 
        KW  - information
KW  - education
KW  - inequality
KW  - survey experiment
        ER  -