We compare the causal effects of forward guidance communication about future interest rates on households' expectations … of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized … then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates …

A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1 …,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we … control for various human capital and other factors that might affect both performance and credit scoring outcomes. We use a …

significantly positive effect on game success suggests that female coaches should be more risk-taking. …

comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …

education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to … implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …

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 …

have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …