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 …

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. …

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number …

We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating … students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post …

. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …

then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates …. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments … constrained capacity to collect and process information. …

This paper shows that imperfect information about school quality causes low-income families to live in neighborhoods … with lower-performing, more segregated schools. We randomized the addition of school quality information onto a nationwide … website of housing listings for families with housing vouchers. We find that this information causes families to choose …