Showing 1 - 10 of 55
We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156434
exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887414
exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937530
information intervention leads to a reduction in the demand for psychotherapy. A mechanism experiment reveals that this … information increases optimism about future mental health, thereby reducing the perceived need for therapy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534419
How do households adjust their spending behavior in response to changes in home price expectations? We conduct a field experiment with a sample of Americans that links survey data on home price expectations to actual spending behavior as measured in a rich home-scanner dataset. In the experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551644
We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179825
respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179886
We review methodological questions relevant for the design of information provision experiments. We first provide a … literature review of major areas in which information provision experiments are applied. We then outline key measurement … challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269476
respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202249
We review methodological questions relevant for the design of information provision experiments. We first provide a … literature review of major areas in which information provision experiments are applied. We then outline key measurement … challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202264