@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp1324,
            	author={Blinder, Alan S. and Krueger, Alan B.},
            	title={What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?},
            	year={2004},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={1324},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1324},
	abstract={Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What
are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how
do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find
that most respondents express a strong desire to be well informed on economic policy
issues, and that television is their dominant source of information. On a variety of major
policy issues (e.g., taxes, social security, health insurance), ideology is the most important
determinant of public opinion, while measures of self-interest are the least important.
Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between.},
	keywords={knowledge;public opinion;ideology},
            }