. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are … effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …

provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements …

concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

little or no effect of automated calls. We establish this finding in a large field experiment in a targeted, partisan get …

campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field … experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for mayor in Cava de' Tirreni (2015). In both cases, a sample of eligible …

laboratory experiment to provide a test of such a connection. In small laboratory “societies,” people repeatedly vote for a …

voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed …