of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the … delayed memory score by about 0.3, which amounts to 16% of the standard deviation. Furthermore, for women, we find that more …

, which then come to define "who they are". Identity investments increase when information is scarce or when a greater … under symmetric information, as partners seek to self-enhance and shift blame by turning down "insultingly low" offers. …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …

under imperfect information, these findings are consistent with Indonesia citizens over-estimating the net gains from …

and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of …

biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers’ work. …

repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the … transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by … negative institutional shocks and the information stock created from these experiences, have similar self-employment rates to …