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Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention : A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions

Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk; Vogelsang, Timo - 2021

behavior through incentives. We study the impact of these two roles of information on profits by implementing a field …

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Keep it Simple : A Field Experiment on Information Sharing Among Strangers

Batista, Catia; Fafchamps, Marcel; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2022

SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. We conduct a field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who have access to mobile money. In the baseline intervention, subjects receive an SMS containing...

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The More You Know : Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment

Gee, Laura K. - 2016

This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by...

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Financial Work Incentives for Disability Benefit Recipients : Lessons from a Randomised Field Experiment

Butler, Monika - 2014

Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part of their benefits if their earnings exceed certain thresholds (“cash-cliffs”). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for low DI outflow. We analyse a conditional cash program that incentivises work related reductions of...

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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay : A Field Experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2013

the incentives, while the responsiveness of treatment stores close to winning a bonus increases in relative performance …

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Motivating Altruism : A Field Study

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2021

This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the complete donation histories of the blood donors in an Italian town. The cross-sectional variation...

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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

Kast, Felipe - 2012

While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...

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Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments : An Artefactual Field Experiment

Cadsby, Charles Bram - 2015

comparison group in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … rank-based financial incentives. Our results show that performance-ranking information had a significant motivational … effect on average performance for students, but not for that of workers. Adding financial incentives based on rank provided …

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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices : A Field Experiment in Primary Schools

Belot, Michèle - 2015

of any effects six months later. Our results show that incentives can work, at least temporarily, to increase healthy …

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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers : Lessons from a Field Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2015

schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …

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