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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 in...
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In this chapter, we discuss the "lab-in-the-field" methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been used to...
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Factorial designs are widely used for studying multiple treatments in one experiment. While "long" model t …
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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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experiment with several non-overlapping waves, where the goal is to choose among a set of possible policies (treatments) for … design that we call "exploration sampling," where assignment probabilities are an increasing concave function of the …
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challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …
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outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …
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People often receive good news that makes them feel better about the world around them, or bad news that makes them feel worse about it. This paper studies how the valence of news affects belief updating, absent functional and ego-relevant factors. Using experiments with over 1,500 participants...
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sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment do provide behavioural evidence which is rare in such a controlled …
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; tragic events and disasters ; survival ; quasi-natural experiment ; altruism …
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