Abstract
The theme of this study is a tax increase and government bonds for the recovery from the East Japan great earthquake disaster. We investigated experimentally decision making between a tax increase and government bonds. We set three experimental conditions that were different in types of information we provided, and divided 300 participants in each condition randomly. We asked participants which they preferred between tax increase and governmental bonds as a financial resource for recovery from the earthquake. As the result, we find that objective instruction about tax and governmental bonds has stronger positive effect on preference on governmental bonds than that on tax. We also find that such effects of the instruction on the preferences are stronger for those who have a custom to read newspapers and books.
