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Breza, Emily - 2016

The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...

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Using Donald Trump's COVID-19 Vaccine Endorsement to Give Public Health a Shot in the Arm : A Large-Scale Ad Experiment

Larsen, Bradley J.; Hetherington, Marc J.; Greene, Steven; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We report a large-scale randomized controlled trial designed to assess whether the partisan cue of a provaccine message from Donald Trump would induce Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines. Our study involved presenting a 27-second advertisement to millions of U.S. YouTube users in October 2021....

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When Celebrities Speak : A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination In Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2019

Celebrity endorsements are often sought to influence public opinion. We ask whether celebrity endorsement per se has an effect beyond the fact that their statements are seen by many, and whether on net their statements actually lead people to change their beliefs. To do so, we conducted a...

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You Get a Book! Demand Spillovers, Combative Advertising, and Celebrity Endorsements

Garthwaite, Craig L. - 2012

This paper studies the economic effects of endorsements. In the publishing sector, endorsements from the Oprah Winfrey Book Club are found to be a business stealing form of advertising that raises title level sales without increasing the market size. The endorsements decrease aggregate adult...

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Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening : Evidence from India

Goldberg, Jessica - 2018

We use a field experiment with 3,176 patients at 122 tuberculosis treatment clinics in India to test whether peer …

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Group Lending with Heterogeneous Types

Gan, Li - 2013

estimate the model using a rich dataset from a group lending program in India. The estimation results support our model …

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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a … teammates and their supervisor) and external diversity (between teams and the individuals they canvassed). We observe team …

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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …

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Sorting with Team Formation

Boerma, Job; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Zimin, Alexander P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We fully solve an assignment problem with heterogeneous firms and multiple heterogeneous workers whose skills are imperfect substitutes, that is, when production is submodular. We show that sorting is neither positive nor negative and is characterized sufficiently by two regions. In the first...

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Finding Leverage Groups

Coleman, David E. - 1977

A brief discussion of recent methods using the Hat Matrix for identifying leverage points, and clustering techniques for finding groups of data points is presented. The problem of identifying leverage groups is addressed, and a heuristic algorithm for identifying both leverage points and...

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