Abstract
The objective of this study is to investigate how people's attitude toward governmental finance is influenced by information that they obtained. We conducted an experiment in which we provide different types of information to different participant groups. The information themes we provided include public investment and the governmental bonds. In some groups, the information was provided with numerical data and graphs, but in the other groups, the information was without them. The 400 participants were randomly assigned into a control group and 6 experimental groups (3 types of information themes, i.e. public investment, governmental bonds and both multiplied by 2 types of information content, i.e. with and without numerical data and graphs). As a result, we find that: 1) information with numerical data and graphs have stronger effects than that without them on attitude toward governmental finances, 2) information have stronger effects for those with higher concern or higher literacy on the policy, and 3) too much information have lesser effects than that with fewer information.
