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Using Machine Learning for Efficient Flexible Regression Adjustment in Economic Experiments
List, John A.; Muir, Ian; Sun, Gregory K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study investigates how to use regression adjustment to reduce variance in experimental data. We show that the estimators recommended in the literature satisfy an orthogonality property with respect to the parameters of the adjustment. This observation greatly simplifies the derivation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477248
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State-Dependent Local Projections : Understanding Impulse Response Heterogeneity
Cloyne, James; Jordà, Òscar; Taylor, Alan M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
An impulse response is the dynamic average effect of an intervention across horizons. We use the well-known Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to explore a response's heterogeneity over time and over states of the economy. This can be implemented with a simple extension to the usual local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226168
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How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia? An Experimental Survey Study
Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; Langa, Kenneth M.; Halpern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite the growing need for surrogate decision-making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision-making. We conducted a nationally representative experimental survey that cross-randomized cognitive impairment,...
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Out-group Penalties in Refugee Assistance : A Survey Experiment
Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486231
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Generation Next : Experimentation with AI
Charness, Gary; Jabarian, Brian; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the potential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance scientific practice within experimentation by identifying key areas, directions, and implications. First, we discuss how these models can improve experimental design, including improving the elicitation wording, coding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372436
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Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems : Auditing the Algorithms
Zhang, Shuo; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We audit the job recommender algorithms used by four Chinese job boards by creating fictitious applicant profiles that differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their observed characteristics, with female jobs advertising...
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The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-As-You-Go Pension System : A Proposal for a Partial Transition to a Funded System
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1997
endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions" of this member. In Germany, this is an amount of about DM 175 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472582
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The Stress Cost of Children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457444
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World War II Blues : The Long-lasting Mental Health Effect of Childhood Trauma
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Tekin, Erdal; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
clinical depression. Our analysis also reveals that this impact is most pronounced among the youngest children including those … prioritizing children and a long-term horizon in public health planning and response may be critical to mitigating the adverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334501
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Toward an Understanding of the Development of Time Preferences : Evidence from Field Experiments
Andreoni, James - 2019
. We conduct a field experiment to elicit time preferences of over 1,200 children ages 3-12, who make several intertemporal … that time preferences evolve substantially during this period, with younger children displaying more impatience than older … children. We also find a strong association with race: black children, relative to white or Hispanic children, are more …
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