This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …

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 …

through information sharing or through persuasion by incentivized target participants. If social learning is the main channel … of diffusion, we would expect higher sign-up and take-up rates in information villages compared to persuasion villages … increased financial literacy or knowledge about the product. Information alone had a negligible impact on take-up, while the …

mothers work full-time, children's actual performance is generally underestimated, but providing factual information about …

How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question … in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial … savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It shifts and rotates demand curves. The direction of the shift is …

What motivates individuals to participate in social activism? Do awareness campaigns and information about others … combat health sector fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic. In different treatment groups, we either provide information about … the three forms of activism. Providing information and correcting downward biased beliefs about others increases petition …

policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of …-reported and caseworker assessments sometimes contain information not captured by the machine learning algorithm. …

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 …