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present evidence suggesting that consumers update their inflation expectations in response to new information and that … information dissemination may lead to more informed and reliable reporting of inflation expectations. Finally, we report on a …
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substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps— specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and …-college-age) child attending college. We simulate an “information intervention,” and find that were individuals to be provided with the …
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substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and …-college-age) child attending college. We simulate an "information intervention", and find that were individuals to be provided with the …
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socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps – specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs – as a … potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …
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substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and … costs - as a potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college …'s child, the two main behavioral outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information …
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paper investigates how consumers form and update their inflation expectations using a unique information experiment embedded … the economy overall. We then randomly provide a subset of respondents with infl ation-relevant information: either past … information on respondents' inflation expectations. We find that respondents revise their inflation expectations in response to …
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This paper investigates how attitudes toward the United States are affected by the provision of information. We use an … providing information had a meaningful effect on U.S. favorability. Observed revisions are a consequence of both the salience of … already known information and information acquisition that leads to a convergence in attitudes across respondents with …
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This paper studies the determinants of college major choice using a unique information experiment embedded in a survey … provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this new … information causes respondents to update their beliefs. Our experimental design creates unique panel data. We first show that …
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We investigate how college students form and update their beliefs about future earnings using a unique information … experiment. We provide college students true information about the population distribution of earnings and observe how this … information causes respondents to update their beliefs about their own future earnings. We show that college students are …
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of how they are formed and how they affect behavior. Using a unique "information experiment" embedded in an online survey … random subset of the respondents with factual information about past (one or five-year) changes and then re …-elicit expectations. This unique "panel" data allows us to identify causal effects of the information and provides insights on the …
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