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target population. This research significantly advances our understanding of norm-based interventions' efficacy in …
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Evasion of labor market regulations in middle income countries is systemic. This is generally known as informality. In Latin America, where less than 50% of workers are registered with social security, this is a permanent phenomenon and encompasses a variety of economic realities ranging from...
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maintain. Compared to tax collection, field experimental evidence on low-cost interventions in this area is scarce. This paper …
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bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both …, possibly because of a strong anchoring effect. These findings indicate that behavioral interventions can affect civil servants … behavioral interventions could affect task compliance and productivity in the public sector. Second, they provide evidence that …
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We present new evidence that a non-threatening behavioral intervention appealing to reciprocity significantly increases tax compliance in a setting (i.e., crisis-ridden Argentina) where one might least expect such an intervention to succeed. Prior research offers many examples of the efficacy of...
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In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...
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based on empirical evidence from various associated interventions and their possible effects at the micro and macroeconomic …
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This paper estimates time preference parameters using commonly-applied methodologies, with the aim of investigating the link between these measures and actual economic behaviour. An experiment was conducted in the city of Thies, in Senegal, using the unique reference numbers of banknotes as a...
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