measures of workers’ productivity and trustworthiness and make this information available to potential employers. Our data show …

No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a … information if media technology is available because then they do not condition their informational decisions on being pivotal …-ride. Further, we show how the quality of information depends on the size of the electorate, the prior knowledge of voters and on …

with various empirical findings, is the assumption that information about output decisions flows more freely within a …