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This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …
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's contacts. However, results from a field experiment where broadcasting of the initial pledges was randomized suggest that the … observational findings were likely due to homophily rather than genuine social contagion effects. The experiment also shows that … (30 out of 6.4 million users reached) were made. Finally, an online survey experiment showed that both the presence of an …
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Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and … financial incentives can increase the saving rate of individuals with low and irregular income. Our experiment lasted for six …
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We conduct a large-scale natural field experiment with a Fortune 500 company to test several approaches to attract …
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Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of …
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' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...
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We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects … job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment …
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Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …
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We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender …
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