We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its …

natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …

productivity and their social preferences. This paper presents causal evidence that they do. In a real-effort experiment, we elicit … measures of workers’ productivity and trustworthiness and make this information available to potential employers. Our data show …

No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a … information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal …-ride. Further, we show how the quality of information depends on the size of the electorate, the prior knowledge of voters and on …

with various empirical findings, is the assumption that information about output decisions flows more freely within a …