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Television, Health, and Happiness : A Natural Experiment in West Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2022
Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is … experiment in West Germany, where people in geographically restricted areas received commercial TV via terrestrial frequencies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087377
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Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion
Hernaes, Oeystein - 2016
We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify … developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television … explanation is that television-watching crowds out reading more for boys than girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001315
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Terrorism and the Media : The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957500
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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online
Arechar, Antonio - 2017
Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological discussion of the similarities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963854
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Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2018
Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias – people with extreme opinions are more motivated to share them than people with moderate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925503
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To Buy or Not to Buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Köster, Mats; Sutter, Matthias - 2021
We examine whether shrouding or partitioning of a surcharge raises demand in online shopping. In a field experiment with more than 34,000 consumers, we find that consumers in the online shop of a cinema are more likely to select tickets for a 3D movie when the 3D surcharge is shrouded, but they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315163
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Online Teaching and Gender Bias
Ayllón, Sara - 2022
I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more poorly than in previous semesters. The performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084055
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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023
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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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128215