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Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field experiments with high-quality longitudinal administrative...
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We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany, asking if there is a slot available and how to apply. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we...
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We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …
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We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the …
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very low costs of cancelling an initiated purchase process. In a field experiment with more than 34,000 consumers, we find …
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framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …
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Third-party reporting and employers’ tax withholding are powerful compliance mechanisms, as long as the employer and employee do not collude to evade. Using data from randomly assigned on-site audits among 2,462 Norwegian firms, we provide evidence of collusive tax evasion. We find that firms...
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' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the … diagnosis more than doubles them. Internet ratings of repair shops are a good predictor of prices. However, the predictive …
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preschool context of Norway. We conduct a field experiment with 691 five-year-olds in 71 preschools and measure treatment …
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field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants …
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