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prices. -- credence goods ; experts ; pricing ; experiment ; other regarding preferences ; signalling ; projection bias …
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Changes in transport costs can affect mobility in ways that differ across the population, affecting the impacts of transport policies. We randomly assign large price reductions on Uber in Egypt over a 3-month period and collect comprehensive data on participant mobility using Google Timeline. A...
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readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce …
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experiment across seven colleges to evaluate the algorithm's effects on students. Placement rates into college-level courses …
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COVID-19 shifted schools and colleges to online instruction with little causal evidence of outcomes. In the fall of 2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics course across twelve instructors to either an online or in-person class. Final grades for online...
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an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
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A growing number of school districts use centralized assignment mechanisms to allocate school seats in a manner that reflects student preferences and school priorities. Many of these assignment schemes use lotteries to ration seats when schools are oversubscribed. The resulting random assignment...
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attributions of responsibility for neediness from other explanations. We implement our design in a lab experiment we conducted with …
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We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...
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extension to commodity taxation. We compare our setting to monopoly pricing (which is easier), and price setting for bilateral …
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