Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 6,026
Cover Image
Health Services As Credence Goods : A Field Experiment
Gottschalk, Felix C.H. - 2019
patients' SES. Competition intensity, measured by dentist density, does not have a significant influence on overtreatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901075
Cover Image
Truth-telling : a representative assessment
Abeler, Johannes; Becker, Anke; Falk, Armin - 2012
A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634327
Cover Image
Does laboratory trading mirror behavior in real world markets?: fair bargaining and competitive bidding on EBay
Bolton, Gary E.; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008
We conducted a controlled field experiment on eBay and examined to what extent both social and competitive laboratory … markets. EBay's natural trading system provides bridges between lab and field environment that can be exploited to explore … reputation building in bilateral bargaining, while buyer competition effectively masks this concern and robustly yields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264320
Cover Image
Analyzing social experiments as implemented: Evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. Significant effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288386
Cover Image
Analyzing social experiments as implemented: evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990133
Cover Image
Analyzing social experiments as implemented : a reexamination of the evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779931
Cover Image
Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Button, Patrick - 2019
We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870441
Cover Image
Employment discrimination against indigenous peoples in the United States : evidence from a field experiment
Button, Patrick; Walker, Brigham - 2019
We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977924
Cover Image
The early impact of COVID-19 on job losses among Black women in the United States
Holder, Michelle; Jones, Janelle; Masterson, Thomas - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249739
Cover Image
Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and whites in the United States over the period 2005-2017. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169318