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The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement : Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment

Lavado, Pablo - 2017

Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...

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Research Design Meets Market Design : Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2017

Atmospheric pollution was an important side effect of coal-fired industrialisation in the nineteenth century. In Britain emissions of black smoke were on the order of fifty times as high as they were a century later. In this paper we examine the effects of these emissions on child development by...

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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Snowberg, Erik - 2011

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...

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Does the Military Train Men to Be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries

Siminski, Peter - 2013

Combat is the most intense form of military service, but several aspects of the training experience, which explicitly prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam-era conscription lotteries for identification and criminal court...

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Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate … frequency of gambling to worse performance in the critical probability assessment skills that should benefit gambling success (i …

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The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making : Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments

Gibson, John K. - 2016

We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration lottery program. In a ten-year follow-up survey of...

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Does it Pay to Bet on Your Favourite to Win? Evidence on Experienced Utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup Experiment

Kossuth, Lajos - 2019

-in-the-field experiment, we found substantial reluctance among England supporters to bet against the success of the England football team in …

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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration : Evidence from a Lottery

Gibson, John K. - 2015

We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...

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Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins

Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2022

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting...

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Nature or Nurture in Higher Education? Inter-Generational Implications of the Vietnam-Era Lottery

Christofides, Louis N. - 2016

experiment to address the nature-nurture question. Attending university in order to avoid the draft created a cohort which … attainment of children of this cohort to that of cohorts who attended university in "normal times" creates a natural experiment …

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