insured individuals. Thus, the functioning of social norms depends crucially on information, in particular on what norm … enforcers are able to observe about an insured individual's behavior. Information is also decisive when distinguishing between …

Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational … predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost of information or stronger priors are less responsive to variations in … economic conditions at destination, as migrants rationally get less information before deciding where to move. The econometric …

We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …

attrition of communicating with participants. Specifically, we study the impact of sending topically relevant information on job … market conditions via SMS at the start of each survey round. Testing various information treatments, which differ in their …