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When the Effects of Informational Interventions Are Driven by Salience – Evidence from School Parents in Brazil

By Guilherme Lichand, Nina Cunha, Ricardo A. Madeira, and Eric Bettinger

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Do informational interventions work because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction or, to a large extent, because they increase the salience of the decision they target? We randomly assign parents to either an information gr...

The Pass-Through of Retail Crime

By Carl Hase and Johannes Kasinger

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper shows that retailers increase prices in response to organized retail crime. We match store-level crime data to scanner data from the universe of transactions for cannabis retailers in Washington state. Using quasi-experimental variation from...