Does Information Change Behavior?

Wallace Huffman

No 55938, Working Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper reviews and synthesizes the theory of information economics and empirical evidence on how information changes the behavior of consumers, households and firms. I show that consumers respond to new information in food experiments but perhaps not in retirement account management. Some seeming perverse consumer/investor decision making may be a result of a complex decision with a low expected payoff.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2009-11
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.55938

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