This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …

The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality … Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of school quality information on property prices. We use a difference …-in-difference approach to estimate the causal effect of the release of information about high-quality and low-quality schools relative to …

This is the first paper to experimentally examine effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non … treatment. Taken together, this study highlights the relevance of information provision on pecuniary and non-pecuniary labor …

such a degree that it is in fact optimal for all non-experts to contribute their bits of information. A single individual … noise by holding back their information strongly and significantly increases …

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