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Following Through on Good Intentions : The Power of Planning Prompts
Milkman, Katherine L. - 2012
We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals' responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial appointments. At four companies, all employees due for a colonoscopy were randomly assigned to receive either a control mailing or a treatment mailing. The...
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Student Coaching : How Far Can Technology Go?
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2016
Recent studies show that programs offering structured, one-on-one coaching and tutoring tend to have large effects on the academic outcomes of both high school and college students. These programs are often costly to implement and difficult to scale, however, calling into question whether making...
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Digital Messaging to Improve College Enrollment and Success
Avery, Christopher; Castleman, Benjamin; Hurwitz, Michael; … - 2022
We investigate the efficacy of text messaging campaigns to remind students about and support them with key steps in the college search, application, selection and transition process. First, in collaboration with the College Board and uAspire, both national non-profit organizations, we...
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Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets
Einav, Liran - 2013
The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of varying prices, displays and information provided to consumers …
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Consumer Information and Price Discrimination : Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?
Scott Morton, Fiona M.; Zettelmeyer, Florian; … - 2021
Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer …'s willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers … discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …
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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy : The Lack of Redundancy in Dns Resolution by Major Websites and Services
Bates, Samantha - 2018
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
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The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2022
The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product … demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website … contents suggests that websites are used to provide supplementary information and to advertise the current print issue. Website …
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Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience
List, John A. - 2011
A vibrant literature has emerged that suggests willingness to pay and willingness to accept measures of value are quite different for inexperienced consumers but that value differences erode with market experience. One potential shortcoming of this literature is that market experience is...
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Counterfeiters : Foes or Friends? How Do Counterfeits Affect Different Product Quality Tiers?
Qian, Yi - 2011
A key concern about counterfeits and weak intellectual property protection is that they may hamper innovation by displacing legitimate sales. This paper combines a natural policy experiment with randomized lab experiments to estimate the heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and...
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Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
Parker, Jonathan A. - 2011
We measure the response of household spending to the economic stimulus payments (ESPs) disbursed in mid-2008, using special questions added to the Consumer Expenditure Survey and variation arising from the randomized timing of when the payments were disbursed. We find that, on average,...
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