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The Cost of Imbalance in Clinical Trials
Chassang, Sylvain; Feng, Rong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Clinical trials following the "gold standard" of random assignment frequently use independent lotteries to allocate patients to treatment and control arms. However, independent assignment can generate treatment and control arms that are unbalanced (i.e. treatment and control populations with...
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Incentives to Vaccinate
Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5,324) with a unique combination of administrative and survey data. We find that...
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A Simple Rational Expectations Model of the Voltage Effect
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; Lai, Chien-Yu; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The "voltage effect" is defined as the tendency for a program's efficacy to change when it is scaled up, which in most cases results in the absolute size of a program's treatment effects to diminish when the program is scaled. Understanding the scaling problem and taking steps to diminish...
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Trends in the School Lunch Program : Changes in Selection, Nutrition & Health
Bonomo, Therese; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
There has been significant media attention on the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the … nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes, using panel data on a nationally representative cohort of children, tracking them … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …
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Poverty and Health
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Schwandt, Hannes; Wherry, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review …
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Inflation and Trading
Schnorpfeil, Philip; Weber, Michael; Hackethal, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how investors respond to inflation combining a customized survey experiment with trading data at a time of historically high inflation. Investors' beliefs about the stock return-inflation relation are very heterogeneous in the cross section and on average too optimistic. Moreover, many...
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Sleep : Educational Impact and Habit Formation
Giuntella, Osea; Saccardo, Silvia; Sadoff, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
There is growing evidence on the importance of sleep for productivity, but little is known about the impact of interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both sleep and academic performance. Motivated by...
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Dynamic Targeting : Experimental Evidence from Energy Rebate Programs
Ida, Takanori; Ishihara, Takunori; Ito, Koichiro; Kido, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Economic policies often involve dynamic interventions, where individuals receive repeated interventions over multiple periods. This dynamics makes past responses informative to predict future responses and ultimate outcomes depend on the history of interventions. Despite these phenomena,...
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Paying Your Fair Share : Perceived Fairness and Tax Compliance
Nathan, Brad C.; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Zentner, Alejandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide evidence on the role of fairness for tax compliance: households are willing to pay more in taxes if they believe that other households are contributing their fair share. We conducted an information-disclosure natural field experiment in the context of property taxes in the United...
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Leaders in Social Movements : Evidence From Unions in Myanmar
Boudreau, Laura; Macchiavello, Rocco; Minni, Virginia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Social movements are catalysts for crucial institutional changes. To succeed, they must coordinate members' views (consensus building) and actions (mobilization). We study union leaders within Myanmar's burgeoning labor movement. Union leaders are positively selected on both personality traits...
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