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 …

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but … attending relatively better schools, tend to process new information on their own ability more effectively. …

provision of structured information on the true state of the academic market and information through role models on non …

information about the location-specific pandemic trends from the effects of the government-imposed social distancing mandates …, retail and recreational activities, etc), while information on country-specific counts of COVID-19 cases and deaths is used … as a proxy for the information about the spread of the pandemic available to the population. A detailed index of …

repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the … transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by … negative institutional shocks and the information stock created from these experiences, have similar self-employment rates to …

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 …

information on the value of the IV. This leads to violation of the exclusion restriction. We analyze this in a dynamic economic … describe policy evaluation settings in which instrumental variables are likely or unlikely to make sense. For the latter cases …