We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of retail investors who have substantial wealth invested in … financial markets. The survey elicits beliefs that are crucial for macroeconomics and finance, and matches respondents with …

" survey data. The latter one covers information from regular - at least yearly - surveys treating topics like investment …

information in various forms, including abstract summaries of multiple data points - statistics - and contextualized anecdotes … accumulated information, and that the information type - story versus statistic - is a central determinant of selective memory. In … controlled experiments we show that the effect of information on beliefs decays rapidly and exhibits a pronounced story-statistic …

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal …

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES …

We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet … to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social …

- have a large causal impact on individuals' redistributive preferences. Using two representative surveys of a combined 6 …