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comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …
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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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Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...
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implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …
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