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Are estimates of early education programs too pessimistic? : evidence from a large-scale field experiment that causally measures neighbor effects
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038324
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Neighborhood spillover effects of early childhood interventions
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014297141
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389402
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Program evaluation and spillover effects
Angelucci, Manuela; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2015
field experiment to measure the average effects of the treatment on eligible and ineligible subjects for the program in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517040
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Compliance behavior in networks : evidence from a field experiment
Drago, Francesco; Mengel, Friederike; Traxler, Christian - 2015
This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks involving over 500,000 households in … Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376178
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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 - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252072
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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 - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314739
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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. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482501
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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 - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244044
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English language premium in a marriage market : experimental evidence from Delhi
Miyamoto, Tomohisa; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2024
between those who have strong English language skills and those who do not. This study deploys a correspondence experiment … active stage of the experiment, expressions of interest were sent from female profiles to randomly assigned male profiles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075913