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The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...
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Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
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In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age...
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first, low-cost pass at empirical evaluation, we conduct an experiment among farmers in the Ethiopian highlands, a region …
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We study the impact of financial education on intertemporal choice in adolescence. The program was randomly assigned … among high-school students and intertemporal choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who … participated in the program display a decrease in time inconsistency; an increase in the allocation of payment to a single payment …
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elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …
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behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to …
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Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of …
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eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …
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To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
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