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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022

government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected …

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Platform Design and Innovation Incentives : Evidence from the Product Ratings System on Apple's App Store

Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2021

A lack of platform-level competition among digital marketplaces can result in socially inefficient platform design and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of actively anticompetitive behavior. To illustrate the first-order effects platform design can have on competitive outcomes, I...

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Choice Architecture and Incentives Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions and Test Demand

Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2021

Willingness to vaccinate and test are critical in the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the effects of two measures to increase vaccination and testing: “choice architecture” and monetary compensations. Choice architecture has the goal of “nudging” people into a socially desired direction...

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What Does Codetermination Do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms’ governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest...

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Health Expenditures and the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Prevention in International Comparison

Hansen, Jaqueline; Reinecke, Antonia; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2021

In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments had to rely on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in their struggle against the spread of the virus. The stringency of the lockdowns differed across space and time as governments had to adjust their strategy dynamically to the country-specific...

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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists

Avery, Christopher - 2020

This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that have been influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard models do not incorporate and discusses reasons why...

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Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice production called “Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)”. Despite proven results in agronomic trials, our first experiment shows that AWD only saves water and increases profits in...

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What's Worth Knowing? Economists' Opinions About Economics

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter - 2021

We document economists’ opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research should embrace and (ii) which topics it should study. Almost 10,000 economic researchers from all fields and ranks of the profession participated in our global survey. Detailed...

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Teachers' Desired Mobility to Disadvantaged Schools : Do Financial Incentives Matter?

Silhol, Julien; Wilner, Lionel - 2022

This paper exploits a 2018 reform of teachers’ financial incentives to work in some French disadvantaged schools. Based … on this quasi-natural experiment, it evaluates the impact of those incentives on teachers’ stated preferences to move to …

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Targeted Incentives, Broad Impacts : Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform

Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng; Chan, Tat - 2022

Digital platforms sometimes offer incentives to a subset of sellers to nudge behavior, possibly affecting the behavior … financial incentives only to platform-certified sellers when they provide fast handling and generous return policies on their … behaviors are quality signals. Our results have managerial implications for digital platforms that use targeted incentives …

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