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The Impact of State Tobacco Control Spending on High School Student Vaping
Tauras, John A. - 2020
The rapid rise in e-cigarette use rates among high school students in the United States is a significant source of … on the demand for vaping products by high school students. The findings from this study provide strong evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481394
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Social Learning and Selective Attention
Caplin, Andrew - 2015
Popularity is self reinforcing. The attention garnered by popular options propels further interest in them. Yet rather than blindly follow the crowd, most pay attention to how well these items match their tastes. We model this role of social learning in guiding selective attention and market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457666
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461021
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Pivotal or Popular : The Effects of Social Information and Feeling Pivotal on Civic Actions
Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247963
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War Does not Foster Cooperation when Neoclassical Mechanisms are Absent! Evidence from a Natural Experiment among Turkish Conscripts
Kıbrıs, Arzu; Cesur, Resul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462722
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Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children
Haushofer, Johannes; Larreboure, Magdalena; Lowes, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences of children. The program allocated $1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. We measure the social preferences of 4,022 children from 1,687 households with survey questions and incentivized...
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Stress, Ethnicity, and Prosocial Behavior
Haushofer, Johannes; Lowes, Sara; Musau, Abednego; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
While observational evidence suggests that people behave more prosocially towards members of their own ethnic group, many laboratory studies fail to find this effect. One possible explanation is that coethnic preference only emerges during times of stress. To test this hypothesis, we...
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Cognitive Biases : Mistakes or Missing Stakes?
Enke, Benjamin; Genîzî, Ûrî; Hall, Brian J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Reflection Test. In laboratory experiments with 1,236 college students in Nairobi, we implement three incentive levels: no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510529
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Information and Social Norms : Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women
Aloud, Monira Essa - 2020
experiment embedded in a survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided … find that expectations of working among those in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479217
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Does Virtual Advising Increase College Enrollment? Evidence from a Random Assignment College Access Field Experiment
Phillips, Meredith - 2019
informational and social support barriers to college application and enrollment among socioeconomically disadvantaged students …. Students who were randomly assigned to the program felt more supported during the college application process and applied more … intermediate outcomes were larger for the types of students we anticipated would most need additional support during the college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480453