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How Do Employers Use Compensation History? : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Barach, Moshe; Horton, John J. - 2022
We report the results of a field experiment in which treated employers could not observe the compensation history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048875
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Historical Natural Experiments : Bridging Economics and Economic History
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2022
perspective of economists in other subdisciplines. We argue that the historical natural experiment represents a methodological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101688
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Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia
de Ree, Joppe - 2016
doubling of base teacher salaries. Using a large-scale randomized experiment across a representative sample of Indonesian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001228
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When No Bad Deed Goes Punished : Relational Contracting in Ghana Versus the UK
Davies, Elwyn - 2017
a repeated gift-exchange experiment with university students in Ghana and the UK. The experiment is framed as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963754
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Are Protests Games of Strategic Complements or Substitutes? Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Democracy Movement
Cantoni, Davide - 2017
substitutability. We conduct the first field experiment directly manipulating individuals' beliefs about others' protest participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964391
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Are Consumers Poorly Informed About Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments
Allcott, Hunt - 2017
It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing fuel economy information to new vehicle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964896
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Targeted Remedial Education : Experimental Evidence from Peru
Saavedra, Juan E. - 2017
first randomized experiment of an inquiry-based remedial science-education program for low-performing elementary students in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965416
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'Acting Wife' : Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017
observability. A supplementary experiment asked students to make choices over hypothetical jobs before discussing their choices in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965430
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A Theory of Experimenters
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2017
This paper proposes a decision-theoretic framework for experiment design. We model experimenters as ambiguity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946499
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Should Flavors Be Banned in E-Cigarettes? Evidence on Adult Smokers and Recent Quitters from a Discrete Choice Experiment
Buckell, John - 2017
experiment on a nationally representative sample of 2,031 adult smokers and recent quitters that we collected. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946501