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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 …
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have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 … absences. We pre-specified five primary outcomes. The intervention reduces course failures by 38% and increases class …
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information about others’ behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
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In an auction market, the auctioneer exerts significant influence in choosing and administering a selling strategy. We … auctioneer's actions maintain a careful balance of his own incentives vs. those of his clients, and the auction outcomes are … affected by how much discretion the auctioneer has in choosing the selling strategy. Specifically, we find that raising the …
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errors in strategy implementation. In our data, we show that players indeed choose less lenient strategies in environments …
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with various empirical findings, is the assumption that information about output decisions flows more freely within a …
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