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Silent networks : the role of inaccurate beliefs in reducing useful social interactions
Jain, Ronak; Khandelwal, Vatsal - 2024
Inaccurate beliefs about social norms can reduce useful social interactions and adversely affect an individual's ability to deal with negative shocks. We implement a randomized controlled trial with low-income workers in urban India who lack access to formal financial and healthcare support. We...
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A field study of donor behaviour in the Iranian kidney market
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022
Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor behaviour in this unusual market. Participants have lower risk tolerance and higher patience levels than the Iranian average but display no difference in rationality from...
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Value for money in organizations providing public education services and how to measure it
Štrangfeldová, Jana; Štefanišinová, Nikola - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 66 (2020) 2, pp. 62-70
performance for public service organizations (i.e., education services ). It also provides a tool for districts and individual … of resources, with due regard for value received. Education is no exception. This study focus on the presentation and … evaluation of public organizations (public grammar schools in our case) in education on the basis of their economy, efficiency …
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Dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay : a field experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; … - 2013
performance pay. Employees in the randomly selected treatment stores could win a bonus by outperforming three comparable stores … from the control group over the course of four weeks. Treatment stores received weekly feedback on relative performance …. Control stores were kept unaware of their involvement, so that their performance generates exogenous variation in the relative …
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Vaccines at work
Hoffmann, Manuel; Mosquera, Roberto; Chadi, Adrian - 2020
Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador,...
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Vaccines at work
Hoffmann, Manuel; Mosquera, Roberto; Chadi, Adrian - 2019 - First draft: July 2018, this version: February 7, 2019
Influenza imposes substantial costs worldwide in terms of human lives and productivity losses. Vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce these costs for firms and public health institutions, but low take-up rates, particularly of working adults, and vaccination unintendingly causing...
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Machiavelli versus concave utility functions : should bads be spread out or concentrated?
Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly data on six positive and twelve negative life events in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics...
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Are the effects of informational interventions driven by salience?
Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; Lichand, Guilherme; … - 2021 - Revised version
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction? Or, alternatively, is it to a large extent because they increase the salience of the decision they...
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Are the effects of informational interventions driven by salience?
Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; Lichand, Guilherme; … - 2020
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction? Or, alternatively, is it to a large extent because they increase the salience of the decision they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240044
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Are the effects of informational interventions driven by salience?
Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; Lichand, Guilherme; … - 2021 - Revised version
, and lead them to independently acquire additional information about student performance. Our results have implications for …
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