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Domestic Banks as Lightning Rods? Home Bias and Information During the Eurozone Crisis
Saka, Orkun - 2019
banks' private sector exposures were (at least) equally affected by the rise in home bias. Consistent with this pattern, I …
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Discrimination on the Child Care Market : A Nationwide Field Experiment
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2023
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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Paying Gig Workers - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Butschek, Sebastian - 2019
adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure workers against earnings risk. Our experiment tests predictions from a …
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Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media : A Natural Field Experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2019
' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859603
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Nudging When the Descriptive Norm is Low : Evidence from a Carbon Offsetting Field Experiment
Carattini, Stefano - 2020
Nudges and behavioral interventions have become a popular tool to stimulate prosocial behavior. Little is known … field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants … when the descriptive norm is low as well as on the ability of nudges to affect experts …
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When Nudges Fail to Scale : Field Experimental Evidence from Goal Setting on Mobile Phones
Löschel, Andreas - 2020
Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825397
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Political Activists as Free-Riders : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Hager, Anselm - 2020
nation-wide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European party during a recent national election. In a …
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Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact : A Field Experiment
Finseraas, Henning - 2019
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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Collusive Tax Evasion by Employers and Employees : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Norway
Bjørneby, Marie - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892201
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Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test...
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