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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...
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Preferences for government enforcement of a common pool harvest quota: Theory and experimental evidence from fishing communities in Colombia
Velez, Maria Alejandra; Stranlund, John K.; Murphy, James J. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2012
enforcement by voting on two levels of enforcement of a harvest quota, with and without communication. The two enforcement … enforcement strategy did not lead to more efficient harvests, nor did allowing subjects to communicate before voting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856249
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Who’s Favored by Evaluative Voting ? An Experiment Conducted During the 2012 French Presidential Election.
Baujard, Antoinette; Gavrel, Frédéric; Igersheim, Herrade - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2013
Under evaluative voting, the voter freely grades each candidate on a numerical scale, with the winning candidate being … determined by the sum of the grades they receive. This paper compares evaluative voting with the two-round system, reporting on … evaluative voting rules, and the specific pattern of strategic voting under the official, two-round voting rule. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004034
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Who’s Favored by Evaluative Voting ? An Experiment Conducted During the 2012 French Presidential Election
Baujard, Antoinette; Gavrel, Frédéric; Igersheim, Herrade - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014
Under evaluative voting, the voter freely grades each candidate on a numerical scale, with the winning candidate being … determined by the sum of the grades they receive. This paper compares evaluative voting with the two-round system, reporting on … evaluative voting rules, and the specific pattern of strategic voting under the two-round voting rule. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161039
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The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption - Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Rural Senegal
Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
Today 2.6 billion people in developing countries rely on biomass as primary cooking fuel, with profound negative implications for their well-being. Improved biomass cooking stoves are alleged to counteract these adverse effects. This paper evaluates take-up and impacts of low-cost improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860304
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Early intervention and child health: Evidence from a Dublin-based randomized controlled trial
Doyle, Orla; Fitzpatrick, Nick; Lovett, Judy; Rawdon, … - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2015
This article investigates the impact of an early intervention program, which experimentally modifies the parenting and home environment of disadvantaged families, on child health in the first 3 years of life. We recruited and randomized 233 (115 intervention, 118 control) pregnant women from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265277
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Early intervention and child health: Evidence from a Dublin-based randomized controlled trial
Doyle, Orla; Fitzpatrick, Nick; Lovett, Judy; Rawdon, … - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2015
This article investigates the impact of an early intervention program, which experimentally modifies the parenting and home environment of disadvantaged families, on child health in the first 3 years of life. We recruited and randomized 233 (115 intervention, 118 control) pregnant women from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265620
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A Recipe for Success? Randomized Free Distribution of Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal
Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Today more than 2.7 billion people rely on biomass as their primary cooking fuel, with profound implications for the environment and people’s well-being. Wood provision is often time-consuming and the emitted smoke has severe health effects – both burdens that afflict women in particular....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540946
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Does financial aid help poor students succeed in college?
Wang, Xiaobing; Liu, Chengfang; Zhang, Linxiu; Yue, Ai; … - In: China Economic Review 25 (2013) C, pp. 27-43
The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education. Although studies have shown that poor high school students...
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Please Call Again: Correcting Non-Response Bias in Treatment Effect Models
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Gurgand, Marc; Le … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit" and of the bounding approach of Lee (2009). As a substitute for the instrument needed in sample selectivity correction models, we use information on the number of attempts that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570787