Data and Code for: Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Yusufcan Masatlioglu, University of Maryland; Yesim Orhun, University of Michigan; Collin Raymond, Cornell University

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Project Citation:

Masatlioglu, Yusufcan, Orhun, Yesim, and Raymond, Collin. Data and Code for: Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-09-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/E190641V1

Project Description

Summary: This project examines whether people have an intrinsic preference for negatively skewed or positively skewed information structures and how these preferences relate to intrinsic preferences for informativeness. It reports results from 5 studies (3 lab experiments, 2 online studies).

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Experiments; Surveys

JEL Classification:
      D00 Microeconomics: General
      D80 Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
      D90 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General

Geographic Coverage: US

Time Period(s): 11/2014 – 11/2014; 4/2017 – 5/2017; 3/2021 – 3/2021; 10/2020 – 11/2020; 3/2017 – 6/2017; 7/2015 – 9/2015

Universe: Persons aged 18 and over living in the U.S. with access to computers and internet.

Data Type(s): experimental data; survey data

Methodology

Sampling: Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 included University of Michigan students who signed up to participate in the study. Experiment 3 included University of Michigan and University of Massachusetts students who signed up to participate in the study. All participants were 18 or older. The Alzheimer's survey was fielded on the Prolific and Amazon MTurk platforms and targeted individuals who listed English as their first language and were older than 40 years. The IQ Test study was fielded on the Amazon MTurk platform and targeted adults who are U.S. residents.

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V1 [2023-09-14]

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