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levels to spending on early and primary education. Effects of information provision persist over a two-week period in a …
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. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …
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To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. …
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extensive form games in which players decide on their strategies before the start of play and can purchase noisy information …
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We show that a common (identical across investors) irrationality in information processing can be enough to create …), make investment horizon age-independent, and keep all information complete. The common irrationality in our model takes the … form of a somewhat non-Bayesian information processing. The resulting trade between such essentially identical individuals …
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about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …
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automation risk of their occupation, especially those in high-automatability occupations. Randomized information about their … in their work environment. The information also increases willingness to participate in further training, especially …
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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. …
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information intervention leads to a reduction in the demand for psychotherapy. A mechanism experiment reveals that this … information increases optimism about future mental health, thereby reducing the perceived need for therapy. …
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Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive problems in commercial and reinsurance markets where intermediation takes place. We show that in markets with informed as well as uninformed consumers and heterogeneous risk profiles...
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