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Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2019

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 …

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When product markets become collective traps: The case of social media

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Handel, Benjamin; Jiménez Durán, … - 2023

Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For example, being inactive on social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury brands can be associated with having a low social status. We show that, in the presence of such spillovers to...

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When product markets become collective traps : the case of social media

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Handel, Benjamin; Jiménez Durán, … - 2023

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When product markets become collective traps : the case of social media

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Handel, Benjamin R.; Jiménez … - 2023

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Designing Information Provision Experiments

Haaland, Ingar K.; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2020

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 …

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The Demand for Fact-Checking

Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar K.; Roth, Christopher - 2021

accuracy of the newsletter. The average impact of fact-checking masks substantial heterogeneity by ideology: fact …

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Beliefs About Public Debt and the Demand for Government Spending

Roth, Christopher; Settele, Sonja; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2020

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 …

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Designing Information Provision Experiments

Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2020

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The Effects of Forward Guidance: Theory with Measured Expectations

Wiederholt, Mirko; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2021

We study the effects of forward guidance with an approach that combines theory with experimental estimates of counterfactual expectation adjustments. Guided by the model, we conduct experiments with representative samples of the US population to study how households adjust their expectations in...

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The null result penalty

Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; … - 2022

In experiments with economists, we measure how the evaluation of research studies depends on whether the study yielded a null result. Studies with null results are perceived to be less publishable, of lower quality, less important, and less precisely estimated than studies with statistically...

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