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paper examines whether a social norm nudge can induce such households to save more. We ran a large-scale field experiment at … precisely estimated. A complementary small-scale survey experiment suggests that people did notice the social norm nudge and …
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with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual … health and hygiene explicitly, and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We then provide an information intervention on … menstrual health and hygiene and observe how this changes the perceived social norms. We find that the majority of women report …
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Every month, millions of women worldwide face challenges managing their menstrual hygiene, suffering negative impacts …, and potentially hinder, effective menstrual hygiene practices. We engaged with women in rural communities in Bangladesh to … findings show that while the information intervention succeeded in reshaping certain misconceptions and menstrual practices, it …
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with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual … health and hygiene explicitly, and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We then provide an information intervention on … menstrual health and hygiene and observe how this changes the perceived social norms. We find that the majority of women report …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227602
eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …
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I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
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I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179888
Attention is a pivotal resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain numerous documented violations of classical...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, and associated deaths in more than 100 countries. Our ordinary least squares multivariate regressions show that countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization...
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We employ a new version of the ABC macro-epidemiological agent based model presented in Delli Gatti and Reissl (2020) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the role of a mitigating factor, reducing the frequency and the...
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