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Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso

Bocoum, Fadima - 2017

based health insurance. The information package consists of a detailed brochure which is distributed to households through …

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Sales Performance and Social Preferences

Essl, Andrea - 2018

We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in otherregarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....

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Mystery Shopping as a Strategic Management Practice in Multi-Site Firms

Block, Sidney; Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; … - 2022

Anonymous and unannounced site inspections known as "Mystery Shopping" (MS) are common in multi-site service firms, but little is known about the strategic importance of this practice. We conceptualize MS as a monitoring tool firms use to implement the optimal allocation of site resources...

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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending …

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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding

Naroditskiy, Victor - 2015

Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive...

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Nudging Demand for Academic Support Services : Experimental and Structural Evidence from Higher Education

Pugatch, Todd - 2020

More than two of every five students who enroll in college fail to graduate within six years. Prior research has identified ineffective study habits as a major barrier to success. We conducted a randomized controlled advertising experiment designed to increase demand for academic support...

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Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion

Johnson, Eric J. - 2006

Loss aversion, the fact that losses have a greater impact than gains, is a fundamental property of behavioral accounts of choice. In this paper, we suggest four possible characterizations of the relative impact of losses and gains: (1) It could be a constant, such as the much cited value of 2,...

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The Compromise Effect in Action : Lessons from a Restaurant's Menu

Pinger, Pia - 2016

The compromise effect refers to individuals' tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field data from a specialties restaurant to investigate the existence and strength of the compromise...

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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine : A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine

Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - 2011

The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...

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Active Commuting and the Health of Workers

Echeverría, Lucía; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2022

Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … status reported by US workers, using the 2014-2016 Eating and Health (EH) Module of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We …

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