supplied information. Outside of the lab, it is difficult to disentangle the effect of the cost of information itself from the … effect of self-selection by individuals who tend to gain the most from this information. We thus create an environment in the … lab where subjects are offered additional, useful and identical information on the state of the world across treatments …

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 …

substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and …-college-age) child attending college. We simulate an "information intervention", and find that were individuals to be provided with the …

socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps – specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs – as a … potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …

ignorance: 46% of subjects choose to ignore calorie information, and these subjects subsequently consume more calories on … risk. Further, we find that the prevalence of strategic ignorance largely negates the effectiveness of calorie information … provision: on average, subjects who have the option to ignore calorie information consume about the same number of calories as …

substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and … costs - as a potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college …'s child, the two main behavioral outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information …

Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational … predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost of information or stronger priors are less responsive to variations in … economic conditions at destination, as migrants rationally get less information before deciding where to move. The econometric …

We investigate how college students form and update their beliefs about future earnings using a unique information … experiment. We provide college students true information about the population distribution of earnings and observe how this … information causes respondents to update their beliefs about their own future earnings. We show that college students are …

socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a … potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …

substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and … costs - as a potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college …'s child, the two main behavioral outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information …