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 …

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 …

implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …

comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …

have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …

health and hygiene explicitly, and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We then provide an information intervention on … are well matched to reported adverse health behavior. The information intervention helps to correct harmful social norms …

application information and personal assistance for applications. For lower-SES families, the treatment increases child care …