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information nudges to take subsequent economics courses and major in the subject for students enrolled in large introductory … information on either financial or prosocial returns to the major. Men receiving either treatment were more likely to take an …
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This paper studies gender discrimination in hiring through an experiment that randomly assigned fictitious resumes to … job advertisements in Uzbekistan. The experiment focused on positions commonly advertised in the local context, such as … accountants, office managers, information technology specialists, welders, call center operators, and drivers in the capital city …
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The predictions of different classic migration theories are tested by using incentivized laboratory experiments to …, social benefits, and incomplete information. The standard income maximization model of migration with selection on observed … migration decisions take place under more realistic assumptions. Second, these lab experiments are used to investigate whether …
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,533 respondents and an online randomized survey experiment with 2,392 participants in Papua New Guinea. Both surveys show that less … health workers could change their mind, particularly if information was communicated in person. The phone survey illustrated … their intention to get a COVID-19 vaccine. In contrast, people's concern about COVID-19, most trusted source of information …
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This paper studies whether a particular socio-emotional skill -grit (the ability to sustain effort and interest toward long-term goals)-can be cultivated and how this affects student learning. The paper implements, as a randomized controlled trial, a nationwide low-cost intervention designed to...
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, and how much to invest in the "entrepreneurial capital" that would permit more effective use of the arriving information …
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This paper examines the effects of a negative macroeconomic shock on the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in infrastructure. It exploits the differential effects of a drastic fall in oil prices (in 2014-15) on SOEs in energy-rich countries relative to SOEs in...
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costly interventions. This paper reports findings from an experiment with more than 30,000 taxpayers in Honduras, designed to …
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This paper examines the impact of return migration from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf on the transfer of gender norms to the Indian state of Kerala. Migration to countries in the Middle East has led to significant remittance flows and economic prosperity, although the effects on social norms and...
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This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of taxpayer communications informed by behavioral science in inducing business payroll tax compliance at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, an experimental tax trial targeting 5,423 firms...
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