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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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The social side of early human capital formation: using a field experiment to estimate the causal impact of neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2020
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
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The Targeted Negative Income Tax (Tnit) in Germany : Evidence from a Quasi Experiment
Spermann, Alexander; Strotmann, Harald - 2021
We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called "Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT)" is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus...
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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment
Arni, Patrick - 2015
randomized field experiment with detailed register data and a panel of repeated surveys. The tested coaching program, focused on … be important for program success. The experiment shows that evaluation designs which directly assess behavior can provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449227
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Bounding the effects of social experiments : accounting for attrition in administrative data
Grogger, Jeff - 2013
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The Shape of Warm Glow : Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911199
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Duration dependence as an unemployment stigma : evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Nüß, Patrick - 2017
Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies …. The experiment reveals that duration dependence manifests itself in a sharp decline of 26% to 35% in callbacks when an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114623
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Duration dependence as an unemployment stigma : evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Nüß, Patrick - 2018
Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies …. The experiment reveals that duration dependence manifests itself in a sharp decline of 26% to 35% in callbacks when an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863974
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Physician behavior under prospective payment schemes : evidence from artefactual field and lab experiments
Hafner, Lucas; Reif, Simon; Seebauer, Michael - 2017
laboratory experiment in neutral as well as medical framing using students and medical doctors as subjects. Subjects in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741401
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Duration dependence as an unemployment stigma : evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Nüß, Patrick - 2017
Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies …. The experiment reveals that duration dependence manifests itself in a sharp decline of 26% to 35% in callbacks when an …Basierend auf einem Korrespondenz-Experiment, welches 3.124 fiktive Bewerbungen umfasst, wird in dieser Arbeit die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710015