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 studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the … information responses between socio-economic groups. …

administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …

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 … updating by comparing the elicited priors and posteriors of voters, finding heterogeneous responses to information. Based on …

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 …

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 …

Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success … networks that are more integrated in the society of the host country can give more accurate information about job prospects to …