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Have you heard the news? How real-life expectations react to publicity

van der Wiel, Karen - 2009

As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...

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Have You Heard the News? How Real-Life Expectations React to Publicity

van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Activating Change: The Role of Information and Beliefs in Social Activism

Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2023

the social problem, correct misaligned beliefs about others' willingness to act, or both. Participants are then cross … the three forms of activism. Providing information and correcting downward biased beliefs about others increases petition …

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Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? Malaria control policies in Eritrea

Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - 2012

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea

Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

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Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule

Kostol, Andreas Ravndal; Myhre, Andreas S. - 2020

While optimization frictions have been shown to attenuate earnings responses to financial incentives, less is understood about the individual factors shaping the response. The main contribution of this paper is to separately quantify the role of learning the tax and benefit schedule versus other...

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Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

Giles, John T.; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen; Zhao, Guochang - 2021

This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban...

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How do voters respond to information? Evidence from a randomized campaign

Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and … subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to … the elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and …

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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes: The case of over-the-counter weight loss products

Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...

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Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost

Bleemer, Zachary; Zafar, Basit - 2015

college costs that exceed actual net costs. There is also substantial heterogeneity in beliefs, with evidence of larger biases …

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