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-nudge interventions worked. A follow-up experiment reveals the reason for these convincing null-effects: the information norm-nudges did …
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We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatment has, on average, a significant and sizeable impact on financial knowledge (+0.25 SD), similar to...
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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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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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field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants …
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Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
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nation-wide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European party during a recent national election. In a …
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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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adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure workers against earnings risk. Our experiment tests predictions from a …
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