We investigate experimentally whether social learners appreciate the redundancy of information conveyed by their …

. While we find that participants are present biased and initially naive about their bias, our methodology enables us to … the nature of the task at the second date further shows that learning is unencumbered by a change in environment. Our … participants initially underestimate the information that their experience will provide - a bias that may lead to underinvestment …

disagreement regardless of cognitive ability. Learning about the state of the world has little effect on the evolution of perceived … disagreement when controlling for cognitive ability. Providing subjects with information about their partner's cognitive ability …

We study the existence of pure strategy Nash equilibria in finite congestion and coordination games. Player set is …

-negative learning cost and spending one period. If the agent has time-consistent preferences, she always chooses to learn whenever the … learning is beneficial. If the agent has time-inconsistent preferences, however, she may procrastinate such a learning …), the procrastination of learning can occur even when the learning cost is zero. The procrastination also leads to a non …

about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …

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. …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. …