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on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 … disclosure. The effect was stronger for educated mothers and mothers residing in minority Muslim neighborhoods. The disclosure … did not affect other health-seeking behavior of mothers. The results illustrate the potential spillover effects of …
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shape opportunities to form and maintain meaningful ties with other women. We track the social networks of 2,170 mothers …
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education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … educated mothers compensate for these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments lead … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers …
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Recent large-scale randomized experiments find that helping people form implementation intentions by asking when and where they plan to act increases one-time actions, such as vaccinations, preventative screenings and voting. We investigate the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention...
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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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We report the results of a field experiment where we exogenously vary the use of social comparisons "nudges" and subsidies for participation in an in-home energy audit program, and follow subjects through to the subsequent purchase of durable goods. We therefore can compare the causal effect of...
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Beginning in 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed television advertisements to make major statements about a prescription drug, while referring to detailed drug information on the internet (FDA 1997; 2015). The hope was that consumers would seek additional information online to fully...
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"Nudge"-style interventions are often deemed "successful" if they cause large behavior change, but they are rarely subjected to full social welfare evaluations. We combine a field experiment with a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the welfare effects of one especially policy-relevant...
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Firms and governments often use moral suasion and economic incentives to influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for various economic activities. To investigate the persistence of such interventions, we randomly assigned households to moral suasion and dynamic pricing that stimulate energy...
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Can one-time informational interventions cause permanent changes in benefit take-up? In the context the Earned Income Tax Credit, we find evidence that reminding individuals of their eligibility has meaningful effects. Reminder notices have the largest effect among taxpayers without kids,...
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