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neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged in actual decision making. The ability to make such …
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observable exogenous causes. We explore an alternative approach that generates predictions based on relationships across decision … experiment, we find that this method yields accurate estimates of price sensitivities for a collection of products under …
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In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and …
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experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly assigned peer significantly improves the quality of private decisions … transmits financial decision-making skills most effectively when peers are equally uninformed, rather than when an informed … decision maker teaches an uninformed peer. Qualitative analysis of subjects' discussions supports this interpretation. The …
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versus equal outcomes). In a laboratory experiment, the most common behavioral pattern is for subjects to select the ex ante …
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Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving education outcomes in schools, but the theoretical predictions regarding its effectiveness are ambiguous and the empirical evidence to date is limited and mixed. We present results from a randomized evaluation of a...
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cost-effective ways of doing so at scale. We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of adding an extra …
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present results from a randomized experiment across a representative sample of 350 schools in Tanzania that studied the impact …
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doubling of base teacher salaries. Using a large-scale randomized experiment across a representative sample of Indonesian …
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This paper provides evidence concerning the extent to which consumers of liquor employ commitment devices. One widely recommended commitment strategy is to regulate alcohol consumption by deliberately manipulating availability. The paper assesses the prevalence of the "availability strategy" by...
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