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Do people value more informative news?
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156434
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Global behaviours and perceptions at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic
Fetzer, Thiemo; Witte, Marc; Hensel, Lukas; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224813
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269476
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The Demand for Fact-Checking
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar K.; Roth, Christopher - 2021
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 the newsletter features stories from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582124
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202249
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Designing Information Provision Experiments
Haaland, Ingar; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202264
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202289
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013339101
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Beliefs about public debt and the demand for government spending
Roth, Christopher; Settele, Sonja; Wohlfahrt, Johannes - 2022
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/10013339110
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Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats
Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021
In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for factchecking when the newsletter features stories from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794518