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Consequences of inconvenient information: evidence from sentencing disparities
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SYSNO ASEP 0557323 Document Type V - Research Report R&D Document Type The record was not marked in the RIV Title Consequences of inconvenient information: evidence from sentencing disparities Author(s) Šoltés, Michal (NHU-C) Issue data Prague: CERGE-EI, 2022 ISSN 2788-0443 Series CERGE-EI Working Paper Series Series number 718 Number of pages 38 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords information disclosure ; institutional trust ; performance of public institutions Subject RIV AH - Economics OECD category Applied Economics, Econometrics Institutional support NHU-C - Cooperatio-COOP Annotation Inconvenient information about the performance of public institutions may undermine public trust. In an experiment, I test how information about sentencing disparities among judges in the Czech Republic affects respondents’ perception of the judicial system. I find no effect on respondents’ declared institutional trust and willingness to rely on the formal judicial system. Instead, the information marginally increased respondents’ policy involvement: They became more likely to: (i) sign a petition that invites politicians to address the underlying issue, and (ii) consider fairness of the judicial system a more important policy issue. The increased interest in the petition was driven by mothers, who are arguably more sensitive to the particular treatment information in the presented case of a failure to pay alimony. Workplace Economics Institute - CERGE Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp718.pdf
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