The financial motivation to earn advertising revenue by spreading misinformation has been widely conjectured to be among the main reasons misinformation continues to be prevalent online. Research aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation has so far focused on user-level interventions with...

Can institutional changes reduce knowledge barriers to entrepreneurship and if so, how do they alleviate these barriers? We propose and test one possible approach – changing institutional infrastructure. We focus on two forms of institutional infrastructure: institutional scaffolds that...

Institutional change generates new opportunities, yet theory remains unclear on how durable, stable institutions, which are thought to constrain individuals, may also foster variation in individual behavior. We argue that institutions might enable variation in behavior by allowing, rather than...