biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and … subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to … updating by comparing the elicited priors and posteriors of voters, finding heterogeneous responses to information. Based on …

beliefs; (ii) whether this bias would disappear for weight and height, when the information is perfectly available. We find a … information is readily available as in height and weight. We present evidence from our experiment that limited attention and self …

Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success … networks that are more integrated in the society of the host country can give more accurate information about job prospects to …

outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still … the comprehensive information service when they were young. The results suggest that individuals, who went to school in …

and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of …

) have all the relevant information they need to make proper decisions. We address this issue by exploiting the data … information on students' pre-test enrollment intentions, their final track choices and their performances in the upper secondary … Arianna. However, students (and their parents) are likely to revise their initial choice when new information on their true …

information on the value of the IV. This leads to violation of the exclusion restriction. We analyze this in a dynamic economic …

This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil … value of information and the role of the media in reducing informational asymmetries in the political process. …

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 …