Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223478 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8406
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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 discuss the measurement of subjective beliefs, including the role of incentives and ways to reduce measurement error. We also discuss the design of the information intervention, as well as the measurement of belief updating. Moreover, we describe ways to mitigate potential experimenter demand effects and numerical anchoring arising from the information treatment. Finally, we discuss typical effect sizes in information experiments.
Subjects: 
experimental design
beliefs
information
obfuscation
JEL: 
C90
D83
D91
L82
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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