Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field experiments with high-quality longitudinal administrative...

In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared donation and contribution framings. We found that the use of the word 'donation' generated higher revenue than the use of 'contribution'. While the individuals receiving the...

We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual-orientation...

The field experiment is an established and powerful method to investigate economics and business questions. However, operations management has embraced field experiments only in recent years. In this paper, we review the existing operations management literature that leverages field experiments....

The paper documents the causal impact of transaction price on a subsequent product review submitted by the customer. The evidence is obtained using a Large Scale Randomized Field Experiment which introduced a random exploratory component into nightly rates of hundreds of short-term rentals....

Deciding how much to save for retirement can be complicated. Drawing on a field experiment conducted with the Department of Defense, we study whether such complexity depresses participation in an employer-sponsored retirement saving plan. We find that simplifying one dimension of the enrollment...

This study examines improved biomass cookstove use in the longer run in Ethiopia, using electronically-monitored stove use data collected at five points in time over a period of three-and-a-half years. We explore retention of the stoves and if longer-run use and dis-adoption are impacted by...