Homer Gets a Pay Cut: The Role of Union Membership in Mitigating Economic Misperceptions

• In Event: The Politics of Labor Unions

Brief Overview

Using both the CCES and Prolific, we find union members have stronger recall of factual information about economic conditions. We suggest limited economic knowledge is influenced by an absence of cues, like the decline of organized labor.

Authors

• Laura C. Bucci, Saint Joseph's University

• Ian G. Anson, University of Maryland-Baltimore County