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success in the tournament. Finally, we find that cheating/fudging on the experiment responds to the level of inequality and …
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We present results from a large-scale randomized experiment across 350 schools in Tanzania that studied the impact of … providing schools with (a) unconditional grants, (b) teacher incentives based on student performance, and (c) both of the above … effects from teacher incentives, and (c) significant positive effects from providing both programs. Most importantly, we find …
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privacy using field experiment data from the MIT digital currency experiment. There are three findings. First, the effect … small incentives have on disclosure may explain the privacy paradox: Whereas people say they care about privacy, they are …
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. Nevertheless, the incentives to replicate are seldom in place in the sciences, especially within the social sciences. We propose a … begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the …
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observability. A supplementary experiment asked students to make choices over hypothetical jobs before discussing their choices in …
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We estimate the impact of student loan “nudges” on community college students' borrowing and provide the first experimental evidence of the effect of student loans on educational attainment. Nonbinding loan offers listed in students' financial aid award letters, that do not alter students'...
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This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public … goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S …
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Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created … field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students …
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This paper analyzes the effects of a large randomized field experiment carried out with Hamp;R Block, offering matching … incentives for IRA contributions at the time of tax preparation. About 14,000 Hamp;R Block clients, across 60 offices in …
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We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering … economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate … incentives, combining all of these effects, positively and significantly increased donations, ignoring individuals who took …
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