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experience levels due to imperfect information. We believe this represents a significant reinterpretation of the empirical …
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information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I develop a model of asymmetric learning that nests the symmetric learning … find strong support for asymmetric information. I first exploit the fact that groups of workers differ in their variances … interest in my model representing the degree to which information is asymmetric. My estimates imply that in one period, outside …
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take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the …
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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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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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concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study … affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …
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socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a … potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …
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expenditure regardless of their level of literacy. Spillovers not only raise the cost effectiveness of health information programs …
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The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters … treatment groups with information on current spending levels. Results show that such information strongly reduces support for … public spending in various domains from social security to defense. Data on prior information status on school spending and …
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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 …
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