Showing 1 - 10 of 285
withdrawal of its services from mainland China to assess the importance of access to information for the knowledge production … results are consistent with the view that information accessibility is an important driver of scientific progress. Considering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014504787
Smartphone app designers often use behavioral design to influence users, increase sales, and boost advertising revenue. Behavioral design relies on elements ranging from app appearance to black-box algorithms and personalization. It commonly exploits behavioral biases, such as the lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014294136
Platforms often display their products ahead of third-party products in search. Is this due to consumers preferring platform-owned products or platforms engaging in self-preferencing by biasing search towards their own products? What are the welfare implications? I develop a structural model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495178
We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551584
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190508
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033428
, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033537
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905178
This paper studies how information control affects incentives for collusion and optimal organizational structures in … productive agent's private information and the supervisor and agent may collude. I show that the principal optimally delegates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160310
levels to spending on early and primary education. Effects of information provision persist over a two-week period in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975908