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Automating Automaticity : How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias
Agan, Amanda Y.; Davenport, Diag; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
by carrying out algorithmic audits of Facebook in its two biggest markets, the US and India, focusing on two algorithms …
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Do Firms Use Coupons and In-store Discounts to Strategically Market Experience Goods Over the Consumption Life-Cycle? The Case of Cigarettes
Sfekas, Andrew - 2013
, they are informed about the good and may experiment with different brands. In the third phase, they may become loyal to one …, and coupon offers of 15 brands from 1995 to 2007 and individual-level data on brand choices from 1995 to 2004 to explore …-selling brands primarily discount as price discrimination and pay-to-stay strategies, while smaller, specialty brands discount to …
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Explaining the Income and Consumption Effects of COVID in India
Gupta, Arpit; Malani, Anup; Woda, Bartek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …
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Movies, Margins and Marketing : Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015
A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer M. - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
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Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-income Countries : A Field Experiment in India
Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …
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Consumer Reviews and Regulation : Evidence from NYC Restaurants
Farronato, Chiara; Zervas, Georgios - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...
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Quantifying Brand Loyalty : Evidence from the Cigarette Market
DeCicca, Philip; Kenkel, Donald Scott; Liu, Feng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
premium-brand cigarettes, while Native brands were still untaxed. We use data from two different sources--the New York State …
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Does Saving Cause Borrowing?
Medina, Paolina C.; Pagel, Michaela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study whether savings nudges have the unintended consequence of additional borrowing in high-interest credit. We use data from a pre-registered experiment that encouraged 3.1 million bank customers to save via SMS messages and train a machine learning algorithm to predict individual-level...
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How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income
Golosov, Michail Ju.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study how Americans respond to idiosyncratic and exogenous changes in household wealth and unearned income. Our analyses combine administrative data on U.S. lottery winners with an event-study design that exploits variation in the timing of lottery wins. Our first contribution is to estimate...
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