What determines the distribution of information acquired within the hierarchy of a public organization? Without market … processes, the generation and absorption of information in bureaucracy relies on individual actors undertaking costly action to … of the underlying benchmark data. Given public officials' stated reliance on this information to make public policy …

This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors … experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited … campaign strategy designed to minimize information processing costs. This finding is consistent with a model of selective …

deep-rooted mistrust in state institutions? This paper finds providing information on past state effectiveness … highlights the limits of using information to build trust in state institutions, and the importance of measuring experimenter …

administering regulatory policies aside from the policy itself, (ii) improving access to information on regulatory policies (that is …