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of a healthy labeled meal. Our analysis is based on a field experiment in a lunch restaurant and our results imply that … on the menu, does not impact sales of the healthy labelled meal in our experiment. We conclude that supplying tasty …
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timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the …
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timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the …
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The literature on pro-social behavior shows that older children are more generous than younger children; however, the … level of individual generosity is heterogeneous even between children of the same age. This paper investigates whether a … child's popularity affects a child's generosity. Our participants – 231 children, six to twelve years old – decide how many …
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) contracts using a randomised experiment with 1629 members of a large gym in Stockholm, Sweden. We find a significant positive … hard and soft contracts were greatest among participants who reported exercising the least at baseline. Our experiment …
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We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response …
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This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the …
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. Then, we conduct a field experiment with nearly 150 3-5 year old children and their parents, measuring (1) whether child … of social preferences by providing mechanisms through which parents transmit preferences for generosity to their children … and parent generosity is correlated, (2) whether children are influenced by their parents when making sharing decisions …
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We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when … the children are just 7 to 8 years old. This correlation is only present for daughters. We show that a measure of parental …
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This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal … alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was … the experiment have substantially reduced educational attainments, lower earnings and higher welfare dependency rates …
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