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Social norms and misinformation : experimental evidence on learning about menstrual health management in rural Bangladesh

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021

health and hygiene explicitly, and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We then provide an information intervention on … are well matched to reported adverse health behavior. The information intervention helps to correct harmful social norms …

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Cultural taboos and misinformation about menstrual health management in rural Bangladesh

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2024

findings show that while the information intervention succeeded in reshaping certain misconceptions and menstrual practices, it …

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Exploring the heterogeneous effects of state price transparency laws on charge prices, negotiated prices, and operating costs

Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021

To limit the dramatic growth of U.S. health care expenditures, some states have mandated that medical providers publicly report their charge prices. Our study evaluates the heterogeneous effects of this price transparency policy. We use a comprehensive database that covers more than 2,000...

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Heterogeneous merger impacts on competitive outcomes

Siebert, Ralph - 2017

Mergers realize heterogeneous competitive effects on profits, production, and prices. To date, it is unclear whether differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger studies conventionally assume that, conditional on...

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Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2015

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short- (end-of-year evaluation) and long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to regression discontinuity designs, this approach captures treatment heterogeneity and controls for...

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Testing the waters : behavior across participant pools

Snowberg, Erik; Yariv, Leeat - 2018

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments with student participants....

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Laboratory measure of cheating predicts misbehavior at school

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André - 2015

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From local to global : external validity in a fertility natural experiment

Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, Christian; Samii, Cyrus - 2015

Experimental evidence on a range of interventions in developing countries is accumulating rapidly. Is it possible to extrapolate from an experimental evidence base to other locations of policy interest (from "reference" to "target" sites)? And which factors determine the accuracy of such an...

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VAT pass-through : the case of a large and permanent reduction in the market for menstrual hygiene products

Frejndlich, Alisa B.; Haucap, Justus - 2022

This paper is about the price effects caused by a VAT (value-added tax) reduction for menstrual hygiene products in Germany. Several aspects make this VAT reduction particularly interesting: The exogeneity of the reduction under otherwise constant economic conditions, the reduction was...

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Do people value more informative news?

Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2019

We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …

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