Bagues and Roth (2023) examine the effect of interregional contact induced by compulsory military service on sympathy towards people from other regions and the consolidation of a national identity in the context of Spain. They find that conscripts assigned away from their home region have 0.8 sd...

Aalen et al. (2024) examine the effect of employment on political participation among women job applicants living with a partner in Ethiopia, using 'intention to treat'-estimates and data from a randomized control trial in the field. In the first stage, the authors find that job offers increased...

We examine the reproducibility and robustness of the central claims from Robertson et al. (2023) who investigate the impact of negative language on online news consumption by analyzing over 12,448 randomized controlled trials on upworthy.com. Applying "lexical" sentiment analyses, the authors...

Dávila and Goldstein (2023) examine the optimal determination of deposit insurance in the case where bank runs are possible. They provide a small set of sufficient statistics to determine welfare impacts of changes in deposit insurance coverage, and apply their framework using US data from...

Siddique et al. (2024a) report massive effects of a mobile phone-based health awareness campaign in a randomized field experiment conducted in rural Bangladesh and India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both awareness and compliance with preventive COVID-19 measures were higher when the information...

Siddique et al. (2024a) report massive effects of a mobile phone-based health awareness campaign in a randomized field experiment conducted in rural Bangladesh and India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both awareness and compliance with preventive COVID-19 measures were higher when the information...

Henkel et al. (2023) investigate the relationship between identification with one's vaccination status against COVID-19 and various measures of societal polarization. They find that vaccination status identification (VSI) moderates the relationship between vaccination status and (1) perception...

Verschuere et al. (2023) examine the effect of using the best available cue (use-the-best heuristic) on deception detection accuracy across 9 studies. In Study 8 they find that focusing on judging one single cue (detailedness) compared to multiple cues (four cues including detailedness, affect,...

Fehr, Mollerstrom and Perez-Truglia (2022) studied individual preferences for policies addressing global inequality by conducting a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). They found that Germans systematically...

The proportion of elderly people is growing steadily in many countries, and this trend is expected to continue. As a result, ageism - negative discrimination often tied to perceptions of the elderly -becomes especially harmful. Ageism prevents older generations from being fully accepted by...