so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to … preferred. A second critical message is that improving the quality of governance in terms of collecting information …

What determines the distribution of information acquired within the hierarchy of a public organization? Without market … processes, the generation and absorption of information in bureaucracy relies on individual actors undertaking costly action to … of the underlying benchmark data. Given public officials' stated reliance on this information to make public policy …

This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors … experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited … campaign strategy designed to minimize information processing costs. This finding is consistent with a model of selective …

deep-rooted mistrust in state institutions? This paper finds providing information on past state effectiveness … highlights the limits of using information to build trust in state institutions, and the importance of measuring experimenter …

individuals' work activities. The problem is further complicated by the presence of widespread gender stratification of work and …

space" in Rio de Janeiro and crowdsource information on 22,000 rides. Women in the public space experience harassment once a …

for about 11 percent of firms and are more prevalent in countries with better rule of law, gender equality, and stronger … related to gender equality, it is smaller where there isless emphasis on personal networks (better rule of law, lower trade …

presents evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a training intervention that provided access to information on … procedures, tariffs, and rights to small-scale traders to facilitate border crossings, lower corruption, and reduce gender … gender-based violence by 5.4 percentage points (30.5 percentage points among compliers). The paper assesses competing …