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The effect of audit regimes on applications for long-term care
Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the effects of various audit regimes, differing in the degree of control and the presence of performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We present evidence from a large-scale field experiment in...
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Audit rates and compliance: A field experiment in long-term care
Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of...
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Obesity and Price Sensitivity at the Supermarket
Gandal, Neil; Shabelansky, Anastasia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
correlated with obesity. Our main result is that, even after controlling for income levels and other factors, we find that high … 'price-sensitivity' for food products is associated with high obesity rates. We find that a woman who stated that prices were … that price was 'very important.' This suggests that the price effect is not trivial and obesity is a problem that is not …
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Escaping Epidemics Through Migration? Quarantine Measures Under Asymmetric Information About Infection Risk.
Mesnard, Alice; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper explores implications of the fact that individuals know more than the authorities about their risk of infection and can take migration decisions before their health status is publicly observable. In a 2-period model we study under which conditions the presence of quarantine measures...
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Nudging with information: a randomized field experiment on reminders and feedback
Calzolari, Giacomo; Nardotto, Mattia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Can people be helped to stick to their plans with a little help from information? We provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of reminders and feedback on investment activities involving up-front costs and delayed benefits, such as education and healthy behavior. By means of a...
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Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From a Field Experiment
Booth, Alison L; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia -- a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and...
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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations
Booth, Alison L; Leigh, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.
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Lab Experiments are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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Giving Credit Where it is Due
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper shows how the productive interplay of theory and experimental work has furthered our understanding of credit markets in developing countries. Descriptive facts motivated a body of theory, which in turned motivated experiments designed to test it. Results from these experiments reveal...
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The Multi-unit Assignment Problem: Theory and Evidence from Course Allocation at Harvard
Budish, Eric; Cantillon, Estelle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper uses data consisting of students' strategically reported preferences and their underlying true preferences to study the course allocation mechanism used at Harvard Business School. We show that the mechanism is manipulable in theory, manipulated in practice, and that these...
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