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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 their job applicants. Treated employers responded by evaluating more applicants, and evaluating those applicants more intensively. They also responded by changing what kind of...

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Targeted Remedial Education : Experimental Evidence from Peru

Saavedra, Juan E. - 2017

An outstanding challenge in education is improving learning among low-achieving students. We present results from the … first randomized experiment of an inquiry-based remedial science-education program for low-performing elementary students in ….22 standard deviations. Remedial education does not produce within-student spillovers to math, or spillovers on other students …

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Management, Supervision, and Health Care : A Field Experiment

Dunsch, Felipe Alexander - 2017

If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in quality. However, little is known about how to increase managerial capital to generate persistent improvements in quality. We present results from a randomized field experiment in 80...

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Goal Setting, Academic Reminders, and College Success : A Large-Scale Field Experiment

Dobronyi, Christopher - 2017

This paper presents an independent large-scale experimental evaluation of two online goal-setting interventions. Both interventions are based on promising findings from the field of social psychology. Approximately 1,400 first-year undergraduate students at a large Canadian university were...

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Self-Control and Demand for Preventive Health : Evidence from Hypertension in India

Bai, Liang - 2017

Self-control problems constitute a potential explanation for the under-investment in preventive health care observed in low-income countries. A commonly proposed policy tool to solve such problems is offering consumers commitment devices. We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the...

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Nudging Retirement Savings : A Field Experiment on Supplemental Plans

Clark, Robert L. - 2017

, contribution rates remain low, particularly among those with lower salaries and less education. We report findings from a field …

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Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Belzil, Christian - 2017

Using data from a Canadian field experiment on the financial barriers to higher education, we estimate the distribution …

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Tax Audits as Scarecrows : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Bergolo, Marcelo - 2017

The canonical model of Allingham and Sandmo (1972) predicts that firms evade taxes by optimally trading off between the costs and benefits of evasion. However, there is no direct evidence that firms react to audits in this way. We conducted a large-scale field experiment in collaboration with...

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Management and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2017

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...

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Social Networks, Reputation and Commitment : Evidence from a Savings Monitors Experiment

Breza, Emily - 2015

We conduct a field experiment with 1,300 participants in India to measure whether individuals save more when information about their savings is regularly shared with another member of their village (a “monitor”). We focus on whether the monitor's effectiveness depends on her social network...

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