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 …

Information provision experiments have become pivotal in understanding how beliefs influence human behavior in various … social science contexts. These experiments, which manipulate the information sets available to respondents, enable the … methodologies for measuring and updating beliefs, designing effective information treatments, and addressing experimenter demand …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …