This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and
certification. After comparing quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms …

School accountability—the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student
performance measures—is increasingly prevalent around the world. In the United States …

We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-
based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households …

Objective: to elaborate the conceptual theoretical-legal provisions and scientific
recommendations for the substantiating the inefficiency of mandated disclosure. Methods …

This study examines the effect of an increase in product quality information to consumers on
firms' choices of product quality. In 1998 Los Angeles County introduced hygiene quality …

We review extensive evidence about how psychological biases affect investor behavior and
prices. Systematic mispricing probably causes substantial resource misallocation. We argue …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

An inherent problem in measuring the influence of expert reviews on the demand for
experience goods is that a correlation between good reviews and high demand may be …

We study the impact of mandatory calorie posting on consumers' purchase decisions using
detailed data from Starbucks. We find that average calories per transaction fall by 6 percent …

This paper reviews the economic research on obesity, covering topics such as the
measurement of, and trends in, obesity, the economic causes of obesity (eg the monetary …