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Do Natural Field Experiments Afford Researchers More or Less Control than Laboratory Experiments? A Simple Model

list, john; Al-Ubaydli, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

A commonly held view is that laboratory experiments provide researchers with more “control” than natural field experiments, and that this advantage is to be balanced against the disadvantage that laboratory experiments are less generalizable. This paper presents a simple model that explores...

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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines

McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Beam, Emily; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. We conducted a large-scale randomized experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of...

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On the Origins of Dishonesty: From Parents to Children

list, john; Winter, Joachim; Houser, Daniel; Piovesan, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Acts of dishonesty permeate life. Understanding their origins, and what mechanisms help to attenuate such acts is an underexplored area of research. This study takes an economics approach to explore the propensity of individuals to act dishonestly across different economic environments. We begin...

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Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment

Blake, Tom; Nosko, Chris; Tadelis, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Internet advertising has been the fastest growing advertising channel in recent years with paid search ads comprising the bulk of this revenue. We present results from a series of large scale field experiments done at eBay that were designed to measure the causal effectiveness of paid search...

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Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

list, john; Andersen, Steffen; Brandon, Alec; Gneezy, Uri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Perhaps the most powerful form of framing arises through reference dependence, wherein choices are made recognizing the starting point or a goal. In labor economics, for example, a form of reference dependence, income targeting, has been argued to represent a serious challenge to traditional...

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Inflation Expectations, Learning and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Field Experiments

Cavallo, Alberto Felipe; Cruces, Guillermo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We use a series of survey experiments to examine how consumers incorporate new information about the past to form their expectations about future inflation. Our novel experimental framework allows us to disentangle learning from different sources of information, and to separate genuine from...

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The Behavioralist as Nutritionist: Leveraging Behavioral Economics To Improve Child Food Choice and Consumption

list, john; Samek, Anya Savikhin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., with now almost a third of children ages 2-19 deemed … one aspect of childhood obesity: food choice and consumption. Using a field experiment where we include more than 1 … obesity. For academics, our approach opens up an interesting combination of theory and experiment that can lead to a better …

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Treasure Hunt: Social Learning in the Field

Szeidl, Adam; Mobius, Markus; Phan, Tuan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We seed noisy information to members of a real-world social network to study how information diffusion and information aggregation jointly shape social learning. Our environment features substantial social learning. We show that learning occurs via diffusion which is highly imperfect: signals...

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How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Karlan, Dean; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

-scale natural field experiments. In the first experiment, a charity focusing on poverty reduction solicited donations from prior …--the Gates' effect is much larger for prospective donors who had a record of giving to "poverty-oriented" charities. These two …

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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics

list, john; Al-Ubaydli, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...

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