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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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worker productivity in the facility. Using a natural field experiment, we report several insights. For example, conditional … incentives framed as both "losses" and "gains" increase productivity for both individuals and teams. In addition, teams more …
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one aspect of childhood obesity: food choice and consumption. Using a field experiment where we include more than 1 …,500 children, we report several key insights. First, we find that individual incentives can have large influences: in the control …, only 17% of children prefer the healthy snack, whereas the introduction of small incentives increases take-up of the …
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Do nudge interventions that have generated positive impacts at a local level maintain efficacy when scaled state or nationwide? What specific mechanisms explain the positive impacts of promising smaller-scale nudges? We investigate, through two randomized controlled trials, the impact of a...
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When economic agents make decisions on the basis of an information set containing both a continuous variable and a discrete signal based on that variable, theory suggests that the signal should have no bearing on behavior conditional on the variable itself. Numerous empirical studies, many based...
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financial incentives, often at a much lower cost …
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, we find substantial incentive effects from both financial and non-financial incentives on test scores. Second, we find … that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were … motivating power of the incentives vanishes when rewards are handed out with a delay. Since the rewards to educational investment …
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This paper explores the realities of disclosure risks in the current big data landscape, examining implications for individuals, society, and the evolving ethical landscape. One these realities is pervasive use of dark patterns in data collection. Dark patterns are user interfaces crafted to...
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There has been increasing attention to privacy in the media and in regulatory discussions. This is a consequence of the increased usefulness of digital data. The literature has emphasized the benefits and costs of digital data flows to consumers and firms. The benefits arise in the form of...
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This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the...
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