this paper, we study the impact of providing personalized information on health plan choices in a laboratory experiment. We … that providing personalized information significantly improves health plan choices. The positive effect is even larger and … personalized information restores the awareness of the choice setting to a level comparable to the case without distraction thus …

assign parents to either an information group, who receives text messages with weekly data on their child’s attendance and …-specific information. We find that information makes parents more accurate about student attendance, and has large impacts on their test …, although not about grade levels. Such coarse belief updating is consistent with independent information acquisition in response …

assign parents to either an information group, who receives text messages with weekly data on their child’s attendance and …-specific information. While information has large impacts on attendance, test scores and grade promotion relative to the control group …

assign parents to either an information group, who receives text messages with weekly data on their child's attendance and …-specific information. We find that information makes parents more accurate about students' absences, and has large impacts on their …, and lead them to independently acquire additional information about student performance. Our results have implications for …

We study the determinants of ignoring costless information on measures to address Covid-19. In the experiment … pieces of information were hidden, but revealable in two stages. Our experimental design permits to separate motivated … evidence of both self-serving and pro-social information avoidance. Indeed, these behavioral patterns correlate with the …