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We distinguish the measure of risk aversion from the slope coefficient in the linear relationship between the mean … excess return on a stock index and its variance. Even when risk aversion is constant, the latter can vary significantly with …
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competitive firm. We implement our recovery method in a purpose-built experiment. We quantitatively assess the trade-off between …
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There are three primary measures of teaching performance: student test-based measures (i.e., value added), classroom … teachers' classrooms, prior research has largely focused on the validity of value-added measures. We conduct an experiment … involving 66 mathematics teachers in four school districts and test the validity of all three types of measures. Specifically …
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We propose a technique for assessing robustness of behavioral measures and treatment effects to experimenter demand effects. The premise is that by deliberately inducing demand in a structured way we can measure its influence and construct plausible bounds on demand-free behavior. We provide...
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Field experiments rely heavily on self-reported data, but subjects may misreport behaviors, especially sensitive ones such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation technique that uses intensive qualitative work to assess survey...
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children … examine the impact of investment between utero to 18 months of age on a range of parental and child outcomes. Using the … relatively short timeframe, yet continued investment may be required to observe direct effects on child development. While …
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Digital goods can generate large benefits for consumers, but these benefits are largely unmeasured in the national accounts, including GDP and productivity. In this paper, we measure welfare gains from 10 popular digital goods across 13 countries by conducting large-scale incentivized online...
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environment. Alternatively, if subjects bracket broadly, responses reflect subjects' marginal returns to investment. We test both … hypotheses in a lab-in-the-field experiment, which involves repeated MEL games, a large unconditional cash transfer, and an …
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