We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …

We review methodological questions relevant for the design of information provision experiments. We first provide a … literature review of major areas in which information provision experiments are applied. We then outline key measurement … challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …

exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …

respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that …

evidence has implications for the role of asset price expectations in business cycle dynamics and consumption inequality. …

information intervention leads to a reduction in the demand for psychotherapy. A mechanism experiment reveals that this … information increases optimism about future mental health, thereby reducing the perceived need for therapy. …