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A controlled field experiment on corruption

Armantier, Olivier; Boly, Amadou - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 8, pp. 1072-1082

This paper reports on a controlled field experiment on corruption designed to address two important issues: the … experimenter's scrutiny and the unobservability of corruption. In the experiment, a grader is offered a bribe along with a demand … ambiguous: it lowers the bribe's acceptance, but it fosters reciprocation. Monitoring and punishment can deter corruption, but …

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From Delay to PayDay : Easing Bureaucrat Access to Implementation Information Strengthens Social Protection Delivery

Dodge, Eric; Neggers, Yusuf; Pande, Rohini; Moore, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Poor implementation frequently impedes social protection delivery in low-state-capacity settings. In such environments, reducing managers' information acquisition costs may improve their grasp of frontline issues and program performance. However, in the presence of managerial rent-seeking,...

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Navigating Medicaid : Experimental Evidence on Administrative Burden and Coverage Loss

Myerson, Rebecca Mary; Espeseth, Allison; Dague, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Millions of people lose access to safety-net programs each year because they do not complete the required administrative processes. In a large-scale field experiment, we randomized outreach offering personalized assistance during the Medicaid renewal window to identify the impact of transaction...

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Sleep : Educational Impact and Habit Formation

Giuntella, Osea; Saccardo, Silvia; Sadoff, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

There is growing evidence on the importance of sleep for productivity, but little is known about the impact of interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both sleep and academic performance. Motivated by...

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Using AI to Generate Option C Scaling Ideas : A Case Study in Early Education

Fatchen, Faith; List, John A.; Pagnotta, Francesca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

In recent years, field experiments have reshaped policy worldwide, but scaling ideas remains a thorny challenge. Perhaps the most important issue facing policymakers today is deciding which ideas to scale. One approach to attenuate this information problem is to augment traditional A/B...

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Using Machine Learning for Efficient Flexible Regression Adjustment in Economic Experiments

List, John A.; Muir, Ian; Sun, Gregory K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This study investigates how to use regression adjustment to reduce variance in experimental data. We show that the estimators recommended in the literature satisfy an orthogonality property with respect to the parameters of the adjustment. This observation greatly simplifies the derivation of...

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Chapter 10. Lab in the Field : Measuring Preferences in the Wild

Gneezy, U.; Imas, A. - 2017

In this chapter, we discuss the “lab-in-the-field” methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been...

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12 Best Practices for Leveraging Generative AI in Experimental Research

Chang, Samuel; Kennedy, Andrew; Leonard, Aaron; List, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We provide twelve best practices and discuss how each practice can help researchers accurately, credibly, and ethically use Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance experimental research. We split the twelve practices into four areas. First, in the pre-treatment stage, we discuss how GenAI can aid in...

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Chapter 8 Using Field Experiments to Understand Information as an Antidote to Corruption

Winters, Matthew S.; Testa, Paul; Fredrickson, Mark M. - In: New advances in experimental research on corruption, (pp. 213-246). 2012

In observational data, access to information is associated with lower levels of corruption. This chapter reviews a … typology for understanding this research based on the type of corruption being addressed (political vs. bureaucratic), the …

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Chapter 6 Advances in Measuring Corruption in the Field

Sequeira, Sandra - In: New advances in experimental research on corruption, (pp. 145-175). 2012

This chapter critically surveys recent advances in the methodology of measuring corruption in the field. The issue of … measurement is central in the corruption literature, and the choice of method can significantly influence our thinking about the … determinants, the mechanics, and the impact of corruption on the economy. We provide a conceptual categorization of different …

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