Receiving information about the size of the gender pension gap also significantly increases their support for policy measures such as targeted financial education.

I find that most respondents underestimate the size of the gender pension gap. Providing them with information reduces their perceived fairness of the gender pension gap. Furthermore, treated respondents view gender differences in wages and care work as more important drivers.

I analyze whether providing respondents with information about the size of the gender pension gap affects their perceptions of the fairness and drivers of the gender pension gap and their support for policies aimed at reducing it.

So, what do people know about the gender pension gap? I investigate this with an online survey in which I ask 3,000 respondents about their beliefs about the gender pension gap. In addition, I provide a random subset with information about the size of the gap.

While the gender wage gap receives a lot of attention, the gender pension gap (i.e., the gender difference in annual retirement income) is less known - even though its size often exceeds that of the gender wage gap.

I think Chris, Johannes and Sonja do something similar here: Risk Exposure and Acquisition of Macroeconomic Information? www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Furthermore, salience increases preferences for raising the retirement age over other reform measures, while information provision reduces preferences for tax subsidies.

We find that both salience and information about demographic change increase respondents’ perceived reform necessity.

We conduct a telephone survey in Germany and include a survey experiment to investigate whether salience and/ or information about demographic change affect preferences for pension reforms.

Yes, I have the same impression. But I also have the impression that the PhD student bubble migrates slower than the more advanced researchers and that could explain part of “my” perceived gender gap.