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for misinformation through the lens of augmenting critical thinking skills in a field experiment during the 2022 … Presidential election in Colombia. Data from roughly 2.000 individuals suggest that our treatments enhance critical thinking …
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This paper explores to what extent secondary policy issues are infuenced by electoral incentives. We develop a two dimensional political agency model in which a politician decides on both a frontline policy issue and a secondary policy issue. The model predicts when the incumbent should...
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We estimate the direct and spillover effects of a large-scale early childhood intervention on the educational attainment of over 2,000 disadvantaged children in the United States. We show that failing to account for spillover effects results in a severe underestimation of the impact. The...
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a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an …
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a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an …
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-$15 for the 2010 Congressional election. In a complementary get-out-the-vote experiment, we inform potential voters before the … voted, or feel shame from admitting that they did not vote, provided that lying is costly. We design a field experiment to … estimate the effect of social image concerns on voting. In a door-to-door survey about election turnout, we experimentally vary …
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-$15 for the 2010 Congressional election. In a complementary get-out-the-vote experiment, we inform potential voters before the … voted, or feel shame from admitting that they did not vote, provided that lying is costly. We design a field experiment to … estimate the effect of social image concerns on voting. In a door-to-door survey about election turnout, we experimentally vary …
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