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How do beliefs about the gender wage gap affect the demand for public policy?

Settele, Sonja - In: American economic journal 14 (2022) 2, pp. 475-508

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Adolescent behavior, learning, and knowledge spillovers : evidence from a randomized experiment

Alan, Sule; Biswas, Kumar; Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2025

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When half is at least 50 % : effect of "framing" and probability level on frequency estimates

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The Relevance of a Rules-Based Maize Marketing Policy : An Experimental Case Study of Zambia

Abbink, Klaus; Jayne, Thomas S.; Moller, Lars C. - 2012

uncertainty of government behavior impedes it. This paper reports on a laboratory experiment based on a stylized model of the … Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy … in the economic experiment, the improvement in private sector activity is surprisingly small and not statistically …

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Power to the People : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda

Bj??rkman, Martina; Svensson, Jakob - 2012

, remain open questions. The paper presents a randomized field experiment on increasing community-based monitoring. As …

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Improving Indoor Air Quality for Poor Families : A Controlled Experiment in Bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita; Huq, Mainul; Khaliquzzaman, M. - 2012

reports on an experiment that studied the use of construction materials, space configurations, cooking locations, and …

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The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Linden, Leigh L. - 2012

This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools and...

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The Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Transfers on Consumption and Labor Supply : Experimental Evidence from Rural Mexico

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Unar, Mishel; Gonz??lez-Coss??o, Teresa - 2012

The authors use the unique experimental design of the Food Support Program (Programa Apoyo Alimentario) to analyze in-kind and cash transfers in the poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. They compare the impacts of monthly in-kind and cash transfers of equivalent value (mean share 11.5...

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Spite and Development

Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla Ruth; Kshetramade, Mayuresh - 2012

In a wide variety of settings, spiteful preferences would constitute an obstacle to cooperation, trade, and thus economic development. This paper shows that spiteful preferences - the desire to reduce another's material payoff for the mere purpose of increasing one's relative payoff - are...

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Does the willingness to pay for sustainable investments differ between non-incentivized and incentivized choice experiments?

Engler, Daniel; Gutsche, Gunnar; Ziegler, Andreas - 2025

Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper compares individual investment decisions in pre-registered non-incentivized and incentivized choice experiments to examine hypothetical bias. Using data from a representative sample of over 2,100 individual investors from Germany and France, our...

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