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Leveraging patients' social networks to overcome tuberculosis underdetection : a field experiment in India
Goldberg, Jessica; Macis, Mario; Chintagunta, Pradeep K. - 2018
context. In an experiment with 3,182 patients at 128 tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in India, we find peers are indeed … more effective than health workers in bringing in new suspects for testing, and low-cost incentives of about $US 3 per …
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What you don't know... can't hurt you? : a field experiment on relative Performance feedback in higher education
Azmat, Ghazala; Bagues, Manuel F.; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2016
This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by using a randomized control experiment. This information was updated every six months during a three-year period. In the absence of treatment, students' underestimate their...
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The more you know : information effects on job application rates in a large field experiment
Gee, Laura K. - 2016
This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by...
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
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Discounting financial literacy : time preferences and participation in financial education programs
Meier, Stephan (contributor); Sprenger, Charles (contributor) - 2008
Many policy makers and economists argue that financial literacy is key to financial well-being. But why do many individuals remain financially illiterate despite the apparent importance of being financially informed? This paper presents results of a field study linking individual decisions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719622
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When incentives backfire : spillover effects in food choice
Angelucci, Manuela; Prina, Silvia; Royer, Heather; … - 2015
How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover … effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers …' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …
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Incentives and children's dietary choices : a field experiment in primary schools
Belot, Michèle; James, Jonathan G.; Nolen, Patrick - 2015
of any effects six months later. Our results show that incentives can work, at least temporarily, to increase healthy …
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The adverse consequences of tournaments : evidence from a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative...
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …
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Psychological incentives, financial incentives, and risk attitudes in tournaments : an artefactual field experiment
Cadsby, Bram; Engle-Warnick, Jim; Fang, Tony; Song, Fei - 2015
comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …
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