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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
Exley, Christine L. - 2019
In applications, interviews, performance reviews, and many other environments, individuals are explicitly asked or implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap...
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High-Capacity Donors’ Preferences for Charitable Giving
Alston, Mackenzie - 2018
How can charities solicit high-capacity donors to provide the funds for matching grants and leadership gifts? In conjunction with one of Texas A&M University's fundraising organizations, we conducted a field experiment to study whether high-income donors respond to non-personal solicitations, as...
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The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Pharmaceutical Prices and Demand
Dave, Dhaval - 2010
Expenditures on prescription drugs are one of the fastest growing components of national health care spending, rising by almost three-fold between 1995 and 2007. Coinciding with this growth in prescription drug expenditures has been a rapid rise in direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), made...
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Ask Your Doctor? Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals
Sinkinson, Michael - 2015
We measure the impact of direct-to-consumer television advertising (DTCA) by drug manufacturers. Our identification strategy exploits shocks to local advertising markets generated by idiosyncrasies of the political advertising cycle as well as a regulatory intervention affecting a single...
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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
Karlan, Dean - 2014
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
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Direct to Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceutical Drugs : Information and Persuasion
Bar, Talia - 2014
We formally model direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs and examine factors that determine a pharmaceutical firm's DTCA strategy. We highlight how the profitability of DTCA varies with the characteristics of the condition that the advertised drug treats, the incidence of...
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The Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Outpatient Care Utilization
Eisenberg, Matthew; Rabideau, Brendan; Alpert, Abby E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In this paper, we inform this debate by examining the effects of DTCA on office visits, as well as treatment courses resulting from those visits, for five common chronic conditions...
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Customer Discrimination in the Workplace : Evidence from Online Sales
Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V.; Pecenco, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many workers are evaluated on their ability to engage with customers. We measure the impact of gender-based customer discrimination on the productivity of online sales agents in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a novel framework that randomly varies the gender of names presented to customers without...
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Does Diversification Destroy Value? Evidence From Industry Shocks
Lamont, Owen - 2000
Does corporate diversification reduce shareholder value? Since firms endogenously choose to diversify, exogenous … variation in diversification is necessary in order to draw inferences about the causal effect. We examine changes in the within … investment, are negatively related to firm value. Thus diversification destroys value, consistent with the inefficient internal …
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The Diversification Discount : Cash Flows vs. Returns
Lamont, Owen - 1999
Diversified firms have different values than comparable portfolios of single-segment firms. These value differences must be due to differences in either future cash flows or future returns. Expected security returns on diversified firms vary systematically with relative value. Discount firms...
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