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Information and anti-American attitudes
This paper investigates how attitudes toward the United States are affected by the provision of information. We generate a panel of attitudes in urban Pakistan, in which respondents are randomly exposed to fact-based statements describing the United States in either a positive or negative light. Anti-American sentiment is high and heterogenous in our sample at the baseline, and systematically correlated with intended behavior, such as intended migration. We find that revised attitudes are, on average, significantly different from baseline attitudes: attitudes are revised upward (downward) ...
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Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey: Survey Methodology, Performance and Forecast Accuracy
The Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey (TSSOS) is a monthly survey of service sector and retail firms in Texas conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. TSSOS indexes provide timely information about activity in the Texas private service sector, which makes up the bulk of the state economy. The survey provides invaluable information on regional economic conditions—information that the Dallas Fed president and economists use in the formulation of monetary policy and informing the public. This paper describes the survey methodology and analyzes the explanatory and predictive power of ...