, avoidance of outgroup information sources, and a belief-updating process that places greater (less) weight on prior (new …) information. We further find that an intervention reducing the salience of information sources decreases outgroup information … policymakers could reduce the salience of group and partisan identity associated with a policy to decrease outgroup information …

problem, we introduce a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and … democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while threshold contracts … stipulate a price level on the political information market that a politician must reach to have the right to stand for …

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 …

This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a …

How does information transmission change when it requires attracting the attention of receivers? This paper combines an … experiment that varies freelance professionals’ incentives to attract attention about scientific findings, with several online … experiments that exogenously expose receivers to the content created. Attention incentives lead to significantly less information …

misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …' educational performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

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 …

people's reservation price. This paper shows theoretically and experimentally that when information about the consequences is … gather information in a way that is more favorable to participation - as if they were persuading themselves to participate …