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This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to undermine it. We highlight key gaps in the literature and ripe opportunities for future field work. Section 1 reviews the...
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Social identities prescribe behaviors for people. We identify the marginal behavioral effect of these norms on discount rates and risk aversion by measuring how laboratory subjects' choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient. When we make ethnic identity salient to...
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We use a variant of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to examine individuals' implicit attitudes towards various ethnic groups. Using a population from the Democratic Republic of Congo, we find that the IAT measures show evidence of an implicit bias in favor of one's own ethnicity. Individuals...
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experiment where ego is not at stake. We also find that (4) a substantial portion of subjects are averse to receiving information …
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We examine whether women and men of the same ability differ in their decisions to seek challenges. In the laboratory, we create an environment in which we can measure a participants performance level (high or low), where a high performance level participant has on average higher earnings from...
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-by-minute trading observations from over 864,000 price realizations in a natural field experiment, we find data patterns consonant with …
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Deferred Acceptance (DA), a widely implemented algorithm, is meant to improve allocations: under classical preferences, it induces preference-concordant rankings. However, recent evidence shows that—in both real, large-stakes applications and experiments—participants frequently play...
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Information frictions play an important role in many theories of expectation formation. We use a survey experiment to …
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-stakes, naturally occurring field experiment in the United States. We mailed letters with information on trends in home prices to 57 …
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We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the …
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