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beliefs; (ii) whether this bias would disappear for weight and height, when the information is perfectly available. We find a … information is readily available as in height and weight. We present evidence from our experiment that limited attention and self …
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What motivates individuals to participate in social activism? Do awareness campaigns and information about others … combat health sector fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic. In different treatment groups, we either provide information about … the three forms of activism. Providing information and correcting downward biased beliefs about others increases petition …
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We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...
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How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question … in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial … savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It shifts and rotates demand curves. The direction of the shift is …
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paper, we conduct a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh that provides informal firms with information on occupational … information is the primary factor driving safer and healthier workplaces, which consequently can lead to better firm outcomes. …
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We investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic granularity. We find that vaccination take-up as of November 2021 is...
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-native inequalities in early child care that vary by respondents' age and right-wing voting preferences. Randomly providing information …
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care enrollment. In an RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (N = 607), we offer treated families information …
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Subjective performance evaluation is an important part of hiring and promotion decisions. We combine experiments with administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the role of personal interaction. Leveraging...
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information? We address these questions using a survey experiment in Italy, which randomly exposes around 7,000 participants to (i …) sensational news about immigrant crimes, (ii) statistical information about immigration, or to (iii) the combination of both … theft news, while having a similar effect on factual beliefs. Second, we document that information provision corrects …
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