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 …

insured individuals. Thus, the functioning of social norms depends crucially on information, in particular on what norm … enforcers are able to observe about an insured individual's behavior. Information is also decisive when distinguishing between …

users and their online information and booking behaviour are becoming more and more important for the travel and tourism … and information/booking behaviour through online surveys. However, this approach is prone to critical methodological …

repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the … transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by … negative institutional shocks and the information stock created from these experiences, have similar self-employment rates to …

We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility … revealed. In general, parents respond to information soon after it becomes available. Once the information is absorbed, they do … respond when information is widely disseminated and discussed in the media. …