Using a large-scale online experiment with more than 8,000 U.S. respondents, we examine how the demand for a politics … newsletter changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when …-checking reduces demand among respondents with strong ideological views and increases demand among ideologically moderate respondents …

exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …

exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …

information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …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 …

exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …

exposure to macroeconomic risk, consistent with sticky information models in which people are inattentive, but understand how …

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. …

information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …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 …