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's altruism and trust remain constant as social distance increases. In new large-scale multinational surveys, heterogeneity in …
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This paper studies the supply of and demand for moral values in recent U.S. presidential elections. The hypothesis is that people exhibit heterogeneity in their adherence to "individualizing" relative to "communal" moral values and that politicians' vote shares reflect the interaction of their...
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We study resource allocation within households in Côte d'Ivoire. In Côte d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of...
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This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...
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reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries. The data reveal substantial heterogeneity in preferences …
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This paper is a practical guide (a toolkit) for researchers, students and practitioners wishing to introduce randomization as part of a research design in the field. It first covers the rationale for the use of randomization, as a solution to selection bias and a partial solution to publication...
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Many efforts to improve school quality by adding school resources have proven to be ineffective. This paper presents the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education program...
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This paper analyzes the effects of a large randomized field experiment carried out with H&R Block, offering matching …
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This paper analyzes a randomized experiment to shed light on the role of information and social interactions in … employees' decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account (TDA) retirement plan within a large university. The experiment … university, by promising a monetary reward for attendance. The experiment more than tripled the attendance rate of these treated …
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Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives - as present in relevant economic decisions - on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely documented biases: base rate neglect, anchoring, failure...
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