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Digital Messaging to Improve College Enrollment and Success
Avery, Christopher - 2020
We investigate the efficacy of text messaging campaigns to remind students about and support them with key steps in the college search, application, selection and transition process. First, in collaboration with the College Board and uAspire, both national non-profit organizations, we...
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The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail : A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Gerber, Alan - 2008
During the contest for Kansas attorney general in 2006, an organization sent out 6 pieces of mail criticizing the incumbent's conduct in office. We exploit a discontinuity in the rule used to select which households received the mailings to identify the causal effect of mail on vote choice and...
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Student Coaching : How Far Can Technology Go?
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2016
Recent studies show that programs offering structured, one-on-one coaching and tutoring tend to have large effects on the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult to scale, however, calling into question whether making...
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Following Through on Good Intentions : The Power of Planning Prompts
Milkman, Katherine L. - 2012
We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals' responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial appointments. At four companies, all employees due for a colonoscopy were randomly assigned to receive either a control mailing or a treatment mailing. The...
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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?
Morton, Fiona Scott - 2001
Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer …'s willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers … discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …
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Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets
Einav, Liran - 2011
The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of varying prices, displays and information provided to consumers …
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The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002
The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product … demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website … contents suggests that websites are used to provide supplementary information and to advertise the current print issue. Website …
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Links and Hyperlinks : An Empirical Analysis of Internet Portal Alliances, 1995-1999
Elfenbein, Dan - 2001
This paper examines the structure of over 100 alliances by Internet portals from 1995 to 1999. These alliances were an …
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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy : The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services
Bates, Samantha - 2018
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453397
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Consumption Externalities and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets : Antiulcer Drugs
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2000
We examine the role of consumption externalities in the demand for pharmaceuticals at both the brand level and over a therapeutic class of drugs. These effects emerge when use of a drug by others affects its value, and/or conveys information abut efficacy and safety to patients and physicians....
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