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In many economic settings, agents lack decision rights but provide input. Intra-household decision-making in contexts … experiment in rural India to test whether an effective communication training among married women impacts their labor supply, the … most common topic of intra-household disagreement in the sample. The treatment shifted women's communication styles towards …
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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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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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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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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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We examine the impact of encouragement emails sent to high-performing students in a principles of microeconomics course at a large state university, aimed at motivating them to take additional economics courses and consider an economics major or minor. Using a regression discontinuity design, we...
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on additional communication than did the FDA. Furthermore, industry interviewees indicated that they were willing to pay … with protocol reviews and decision-making … R&D. To assess the current issues and state of communication and interaction between the FDA and industry, we carried …
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Do online communities segregate into separate conversations about "contestable knowledge"? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics, and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display tendencies to contribute to topics with...
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-known commitment problem by introducing communication. Allowing the upstream firm to chat privately with each downstream firm reduces … total offered quantity from near the Cournot level (observed in the absence of communication) halfway toward the monopoly … bargaining advantage from open communication that all of the gains from monopolizing the market accrue to them. A simple …
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comparable to themselves to be the most persuasive. Incorporating communication dynamics can take the influential social learning …
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