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Ideological Bias in Estimates of the Impact of Immigration

Borjas, George J.; Breznau, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

research teams participated in an experiment. After being surveyed about their position on immigration policy, they used the … received lower "referee scores" from their peers in the experiment. These lower-rated models helped produce the different …

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Diffusion in Social Networks : Experimental Evidence on Information Sharing vs Persuasion

Fafchamps, Marcel; Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We conduct a clustered randomized controlled trial across 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the take-up of a savings commitment product newly introduced to our study population. A random subset of participants was targeted through our promotional campaign to test whether the...

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From Flat to Fair? : The Effects of a Progressive Tax Reform

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Cruces, Guillermo; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

in a household's own tax rates on its tax compliance. Second, we utilize a large-scale natural field experiment to … field experiment) that took place a year later, we show that both the quasi-experimental and experimental findings replicate …

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Consumer Preferences for Cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products in Japan : Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment

Kenkel, Donald Scott; Mathios, Alan D.; Phillips, Grace N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

proposals to increase HTP taxes. This study uses a large discrete choice experiment to examine the decision-making processes of …

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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six …

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Do Cops Know Who to Stop? Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment

Abrams, David S.; Fang, Hanming; Goonetilleke, Priyanka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The standard economic model of police stops implies that the contraband hit rate should rise when the number of stops or searches per officer falls, ceteris paribus. We provide empirical corroboration of such optimizing models of police behavior by examining changes in stops and frisks around...

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Welfare Estimates of Shifting Peak Travel

Hahn, Robert W.; Metcalfe, Robert D.; Tam, Hiu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

a large natural experiment with 3.6 million trip sessions and a natural field experiment that both have exogenous price …

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Causal Narratives

Kendall, Chad W.; Charles, Constantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

incorrect) causal relationship between variables. In a controlled experiment, we show that exogenously generated causal …

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Agency, Gender, and Endowments Effects in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation Decisions

Fafchamps, Marcel; Kebede, Bereket - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We conduct a novel lab experiment in which pairs of subjects make separable decisions about allocative efficiency and …

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Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

? Why don't competitive forces drive some vendors out of the market? We ran an experiment in Kolkata vegetable markets in …

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