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Casari, Marco; Ichino, Andrea; Michaeli, Moti; De … - 2018

account economic gains, risk preferences, and their beliefs about being considered Civic in the place of destination. …

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Knowing what works : the case for rigorous program evaluation

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

problem. It introduces several approaches, based on both experiments and on non-experimental data, that have been proposed in …

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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

when controlled experiments are not a viable option, appropriate approaches might succeed where traditional empirical …

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Handing out guns at a knife fight : behavioral limitations of subgame-perfect implementation

Fehr, Ernst; Powell, Michael; Wilkening, Tom - 2014

The assumption that payoff-relevant information is observable but not verifiable is important for many core results in contract, organizational and institutional economics. However, subgame-perfect implementation (SPI) mechanisms - which are based on off-equilibrium arbitration clauses that...

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From micro data to causality : forty years of empirical labor economics

Klaauw, Bas van der - 2014

This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...

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Lifetime memories of inflation : evidence from surveys and the lab

Salle, Isabelle; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - 2023

laboratory experiments. Recalling having lived through prior disinflations has pronounced effects on how long-lived people expect … their beliefs much like the inflation experienced in real life. Methodologically, we compare and contrast surveys and lab … experiments and discuss the pros and cons of each method, emphasizing the general consistency across the two methodologies. …

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Dealing with imperfect randomization : inference for the Highscope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M. - 2023

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

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Using the strategy method and elicited beliefs to explain group size and MPCR effects in public good experiments

Gächter, Simon; Mariño Fages, Diego - 2023

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Social identity, behavior, and personality: evidence from India

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020

Hierarchies in social identities have been found to be integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India, caste is one such significant social identity where continued discriminatory practices towards the lower castes have resulted in poor outcomes for them. While there is...

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Cultural identity and social capital in Italy

Sgroi, Daniel; Redoano, Michela; Liberini, Federica; … - 2020

In a pre-registered experiment involving 1,547 subjects across three Italian cities we exploit regional variation in background, language and diet to investigate the relationship between cultural identity, trust and cooperation. Subjects with relatives (especially maternal grandmothers) who...

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