Large language models have the potential to level the playing field in consumer financial complaints
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Large language models have the potential to level the playing field in consumer financial complaints
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Our new paper is online: Priming public sector identity in five countries (DE, IL, SE, IT, UK) does not increase honest behaviour (although it does increase PSM).
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A taste for government employment also rests on its political flavor
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9/ Why does this happen?
๐ง Compromise effect: Temporary laws seem like a "middle ground."
๐๏ธ Status quo bias: Once a law exists, people prefer to keep it.
๐ Ratchet effect: Temporary laws often get extended rather than repealed.
8/ Real-world examples:
USA PATRIOT Act (2001): Originally temporary, but many provisions remain.
State of emergency laws in France: Post-2015 terror attacks, later made permanent.
COVID-19 policies: Some surveillance measures still in use today.
7/ Main takeaway:
Temporary laws can erode resistance to rights restrictions. Once enacted, they become easier to extendโeventually leading to permanent policy shifts.
The "sunset clause paradox": Laws meant to expire tend to stick around.
6/ Experiment 3:
When given multiple options (temporary vs. permanent), most chose temporary.
However, once a policy was in place, people were more likely to extend it than approve a new one.
Status quo bias at work. ๐
5/ Experiment 2:
Even people who initially rejected the policy were more willing to approve it if framed as temporary.
This suggests policymakers can use "temporary" framing to push through controversial policies.
4/ Experiment 1:
Participants were asked whether they approve a policy allowing harsh interrogation techniques.
Some saw it as temporary, others as permanent.
Those who saw it as temporary were more likely to approve it!
3/ Do temporary policies make people more likely to approve rights-restricting measures they would otherwise reject?
To find out, we conducted 3behavioral experiments. ๐งช๐
2/ Governments frequently enact temporary policies during crises.
Examples:
๐ฆ COVID-19 restrictions
๐ Counterterrorism laws
๐ฎ Surveillance measures
But do these policies remain temporary, or do they become the new normal? ๐ค
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1/ How do temporary laws impact human rights?
This study examines how "temporary" rights restrictionsโoften used in emergenciesโcan lead to permanent limitations. The findings reveal a slippery slope effect. ๐โ๏ธ
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A bus stop in London:
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Emphasis on "still". This may change if the issue becomed salient over time.
This incompetent "reorganization" of the federal public sector poses a risk on a global scale.
Relatedly, in this paper we showed the implications of cognitive biases (alternative cost neglect & impact bias) for ex-ante public support for policy.
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๐ฅ Exciting New Article in Science ๐ฅ
"Policy Evaluation and the Causal Analysis of Public Support"
By Carattini, List, and @robertdur.bsky.social
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#Economics #PublicAdministration #Policy
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These findings challenge the assumption that public sector culture promotes honesty, and suggests that societal honesty norms and institutional measures play a more significant role in shaping public officials' ethical behaviour and corruption levels.
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We find no evidence for the effect of public sector culture on honest behavior in both individual (studies 1-4) and collaborative tasks (study 5), although it had an effect on reported public sector motivation (PSM).
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