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This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …
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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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adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure workers against earnings risk. Our experiment tests predictions from a …
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' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
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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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Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to … effect of the nudge on electricity consumption among app users. A likely mechanism of the null effect is unfavorable self …
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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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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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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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