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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Crépon, Bruno; Duflo, Esther; Gurgand, Marc; Rathelot, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...

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Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics

Lise, Jeremy; Meghir, Costas; Robin, Jean-Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

impacts from optimal unemployment insurance policy. Here optimal policy is defined as that which maximizes total output and …

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Using Field Experiments to Address Environmental Externalities and Resource Scarcity: Major Lessons Learned and New Directions for Future Research

Price, Michael K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This article provides an overview of the use of field experiments in energy and resource economics. I concentrate on two areas of study; field experiments that (i) speak to the use of dynamic pricing plans to manage the use of electricity and water and (ii) explore the adoption of energy saving...

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Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of AlmaLaurea on the University-to-Work Transition

Bagues, Manuel F.; Labini, Mauro Sylos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

outcomes holds, AlmaLaurea reduces the individual unemployment probability and improves matching quality. Interestingly, we …

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Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth

Levinsohn, James; Pugatch, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity … share of youth experiencing long-term unemployment. …

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New measures of the costs of unemployment: Evidence from the subjective well-being of 3.3 million Americans

Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and … the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as … still employed, a one percentage point increase in local unemployment has an impact on well-being roughly equivalent to a …

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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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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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Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

Cai, Hongbin; Fang, Hanming; Chen, Yuyu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We present results about the effects of observing others' choices, called observational learning, on individuals' behavior and subjective well-being in the context of restaurant dining from a randomized natural field experiment. Our experimental design aims to distinguish observational learning...

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Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment

Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper presents the results of a field experiment in which a sample of older workers was randomized between a treatment group that was given information about key Social Security provisions and a control group that was not. The experiment was designed to examine whether it is possible to...

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