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Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives...
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Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were recorded against ethnic groups, older workers, men...
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This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...
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Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...
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Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a … dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical … to be used more widely in strategy research, leveraging methodological innovations from other disciplines to address …
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We design a new field experiment to test pro-social behaviour: will a household return a letter that has been incorrectly addressed? On average, we find that half of all letters were returned. Return rates do not vary significantly according to the gender, race or ethnicity of the fictitious...
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extent to which a reader should trust claims about the statistical significance of results proves very sensitive to method … publication and p-hacking is a substantial problem in research employing DID and (in particular) IV. RCT and RDD are much less …
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We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...
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education and home visits to disadvantaged children during their preschool years. It was evaluated by the method of random …
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Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical …
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