contains information not captured by the hard economic indicators, and that the news-based data are particularly informative …

education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …’ lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …

support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the … German electorate (N>19,500). The electorate is divided, with a slight plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on … opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs and unequal access does not affect …

, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …

. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …

a social norm of tax compliance. In this paper we provide an analysis of the effects of the dissemination of information … information treatment, are associated, in the context of our experiment, with a significantly larger growth in evasion intensity … evasion, official information can have beneficial effects by consolidating the behavior of compliant individuals. However, in …