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documents that uncertainty about spouses' HIV status contributes to marital dissolutions. Innovations, such as HIV couples …' testing and counselling - and, in the future, possibly rapid self-testing - that reduce this uncertainty can thus have …
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This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by...
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landscape. Uncertainty and perceptions are influential drivers when it comes to migration decisions, and yet, the literature … simultaneously associated with uncertainty perceptions. We leverage the British referendum of 2016 to leave the European Union as a … unique natural experiment to demonstrate how collective uncertainty, induced by national government policy, affects the …
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more likely to enter competition in the presence of strategic uncertainty when they expect competitive entries from others … competitive environment than by risk attitudes under state uncertainty. …
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We present a pre-registered experiment testing the effects of three, high-payoff (up to $50,000) vaccine regret lotteries in Philadelphia. In each drawing, residents of a randomly selected “treatment” zip code received half of the 12 lottery prizes (boosting their chances to 59-98x those of...
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Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is …
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We analyze gender difference in risk and ambiguity attitude of subjects across two different ethnicities that differ in the degree of female empowerment. Santal is a patriarchal tribe and Khasi is a matrilineal tribe with men and women being the social head in their respective societies. We...
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