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Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

Lacetera, Nicola - 2011

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering …

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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire : Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

Duflo, Esther - 2004

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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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....

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Moral NIMBY-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada

Lacetera, Nicola - 2018

merits of different procurement systems. We conducted a randomized survey experiment with a representative sample of 826 …

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Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment

Elias, Julio J. - 2019

fairness. We corroborate the interpretation of our findings with a choice experiment of a costly decision to donate money to a …

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Using Randomization in Development Economics Research : A Toolkit

Duflo, Esther - 2006

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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Remedying Education : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2005

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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Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families : Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

Duflo, Esther - 2005

This paper analyzes the effects of a large randomized field experiment carried out with H&R Block, offering matching …

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The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Duflo, Esther - 2002

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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Movies, Margins and Marketing : Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015

A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...

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