We identify the conditions under which voters can induce political parties to collect information and to select … voting rule should encourage parties to collect information. Voting rules that focus on the opposition party sometimes … information. However, in contrast to office motivated parties, policy motivated parties will sometimes select policies that …

supplied information. Outside of the lab, it is difficult to disentangle the effect of the cost of information itself from the … effect of self-selection by individuals who tend to gain the most from this information. We thus create an environment in the … lab where subjects are offered additional, useful and identical information on the state of the world across treatments …

We study the impact of audits on water conservation, distinguishing between the information and technological … ineffective. The information component of the water audit has a large initial impact, but this gradually fades to a drop in … consumption of 2% after 12 months. Technology appears to be more cost-effective than information provision and this can help in …