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 … relatively high publicity reaction. A potential explanation for this latter finding is that these groups have low quality initial …

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that … negative (positive) school quality scores decrease (increase) the number of students choosing a school after the year of …

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 … relatively high publicity reaction. A potential explanation for this latter finding is that these groups have low quality initial …

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that … negative (positive) school quality scores decrease (increase) the number of students choosing a school after the year of …

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the … statistics of employees covered by social security that is aggregated at the enterprise level and information from enterprise …

off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …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 …

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 …