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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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The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often placeemployees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second,demotions are extremely rare...
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relative contributions of involved agents are blurred; either by lack of information about the actual performance of … coarse performance information lead to bargaining asymmetries. In addition, we find that bargainers' subjective entitlements … are also influenced by performance information and the randomness inherent in the production process. These differences in …
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information about the (higher-order) beliefs of players. The approach can be applied to a class of belief-dependent preferences …
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the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …
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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 …
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sequential two-player games without exploiting information or data on the (higher-order) beliefs of players. We show how …
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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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This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a 'focusing' influence, whereby norms only impact behavior when an individual's attention is drawn...
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The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference …-in-difference approach to estimate the causal effect of the release of information about high-quality and low-quality schools relative to …
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