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 …

Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future …) have all the relevant information they need to make proper decisions. We address this issue by exploiting the data … information on students' pre-test enrollment intentions, their final track choices and their performances in the upper secondary …

outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still … the comprehensive information service when they were young. The results suggest that individuals, who went to school in …

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 …