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Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Valfort, Marie‐Anne - 2018

Relying on a correspondence study conducted in France before the 2015 attacks, this paper compares the callback rates of immigrants of Muslim and Christian culture who originate from the same country and whose religiosity varies from non-religious to religious. Based on responses to over 6,200...

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Pay-What-You-Want to Support Independent Information : A Field Experiment on Motivation

Casarico, Alessandra - 2018

readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce …

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Gender Norms and the Motherhood Penalty : Experimental Evidence from India

Bedi, Arjun S. - 2018

This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … Indian labor market. We randomly reported motherhood on fictitious CVs sent to service sector job openings. We generated …

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Health Workers' Behavior, Patient Reporting and Reputational Concerns : Lab-in-The-Field Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Mbiti, Isaac - 2018

We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to examine the effectiveness of accountability systems that rely on patient …

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Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance : Experimental Evidence from Rural China

Siebert, Stanley - 2018

This study reports a randomized controlled trial to improve teacher-student-parent feedback, conducted in a rural county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 primary schoolchildren (8 to 10 years old) over two school terms. We find that bi-weekly student...

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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn : an Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation

Fischer, Mira - 2018

Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...

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Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Carlsson, Magnus - 2018

The question of whether and how living in a deprived neighborhood affects the labor market outcomes of its residents … causal neighborhood effects on labor market outcomes is scant, and causal evidence on the mechanisms involved is even more … (affluent) neighborhood. To this end, we conducted a field experiment where fictitious job applications were sent to employers …

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