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Do people value more informative news?
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156434
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Designing Information Provision Experiments
Haaland, Ingar K.; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2020
We review methodological questions relevant for the design of information provision experiments. We first provide a … literature review of major areas in which information provision experiments are applied. We then outline key measurement … challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269476
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The Demand for Fact-Checking
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar K.; Roth, Christopher - 2021
Using a large-scale online experiment with more than 8,000 U.S. respondents, we examine how the demand for a politics newsletter changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582124
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Beliefs About Public Debt and the Demand for Government Spending
Roth, Christopher; Settele, Sonja; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2020
respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202249
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Designing Information Provision Experiments
Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2020
We review methodological questions relevant for the design of information provision experiments. We first provide a … literature review of major areas in which information provision experiments are applied. We then outline key measurement … challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202264
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The Effects of Forward Guidance: Theory with Measured Expectations
Wiederholt, Mirko; Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2021
We study the effects of forward guidance with an approach that combines theory with experimental estimates of counterfactual expectation adjustments. Guided by the model, we conduct experiments with representative samples of the US population to study how households adjust their expectations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202289
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The null result penalty
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; … - 2022
understanding mechanisms underlying publication bias and the communication of research findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013339101
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Beliefs about public debt and the demand for government spending
Roth, Christopher; Settele, Sonja; Wohlfahrt, Johannes - 2022
respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013339110
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Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from U.S. Democrats
Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021
In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for factchecking when the newsletter features stories from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794518
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The effects of forward guidance: Theory with measured expectations
Roth, Christopher; Wiederholt, Mirko; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2021
We study the effects of forward guidance with an approach that combines theory with experimental estimates of counterfactual expectation adjustments. Guided by the model, we conduct experiments with representative samples of the US population to study how households adjust their expectations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794523