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RCTs to Scale : Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2020
Nudge interventions have quickly expanded from academic studies to larger implementation in so-called Nudge Units in … set of 126 RCTs covering over 23 million individuals, including all trials run by two of the largest Nudge Units in the … United States. We compare these trials to a sample of nudge trials published in academic journals from two recent meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481448
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Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development
Atkin, David; Schoar, Antoinette; Shinde, Sumit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A growing literature explores the impact of home-based versus office-based work. Differences in productivity may arise due to a treatment effect of the office or from workers with different abilities sorting into office or home work. We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322901
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Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces : Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo
Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Blumenstock, Joshua; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Do non-traditional digital trace data and traditional survey data yield similar estimates of the impact of a cash transfer program? In a randomized controlled trial of Togo's COVID-19 Novissi program, endline survey data indicate positive treatment effects on beneficiary food security, mental...
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Selecting the Most Effective Nudge : Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Floretta, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
under consideration include the two most frequently discussed tools--reminders and incentives--as well as an intervention … vaccination drives; (b) individuals receive incentives for vaccinating their children; (c) influential individuals (information … reminders, incentives that increase with each immunization) increases the number of immunizations by 44 % relative to the status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510605
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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected …
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An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science : With an Application to the Public Goods Game
Butera, Luigi - 2017
. Nevertheless, the incentives to replicate are seldom in place in the sciences, especially within the social sciences. We propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455346
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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?
Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This study uses data from Academic Analytics to examine gender differences in promotion to associate professor in economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for cumulative publications, citations, grants and grant...
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Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis : A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods
Chetty, Raj - 2008
The debate between "structural" and "reduced-form" approaches has generated substantial controversy in applied economics. This article reviews a recent literature in public economics that combines the advantages of reduced-form strategies -- transparent and credible identification -- with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464248
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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany
Bell, Linda A. - 2000
This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470681
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How Effective are Fiscal Incentives for R&D? A New Review of the Evidence
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1999
This paper surveys the econometric evidence on the effectiveness of fiscal incentives for R&D. We describe the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471700