Search Results - subject_exact:"Field study"

Hooked on apps : governance by responsible interactive behavioral design : a field study

Timko, Christina; Ostrode, Nicholas; Roos, Michael W. M. - 2025

Smartphone apps deliberately apply behavioral design, including algorithms sensing human behavior and personalized design elements affecting it. Untransparent behavioral design exploits an information asymmetry between app vendors and consumers and can lead to negative effects on consumers such...

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Cultural participation and the micro-dynamics of trust : evidence from a large-scale field study

Attanasi, Giuseppe; Ciccarone, Giuseppe; Peruzzi, Valentina - 2025

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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2026

We study how adolescents' second-order beliefs about their parents' occupational preferences shape gendered career aspirations. In a consequential early-career choice setting, we combine a parental choice experiment with a randomized salience intervention among students. Parents give gendered...

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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2026

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Online Buddies for Job Seekers : A Field Experiment

Koning, Bart K. de; Muller, Paul; Belot, Michèle; … - 2026

We design an online platform to connect unemployed job seekers with 'buddies': former job seekers who recently found employment. We focus on job seekers who search in occupations with poor prospects and buddies who successfully switched occupations. In a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate...

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Online buddies for job seekers : a field experiment

Koning, Bart K. de; Muller, Paul; Belot, Michèle; … - 2026

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Learning from many experiments : a hierarchical bayesian framework for decomposing marketing treatment heterogeneity

Ebbes, Peter; Ascarza, Eva; Netzer, Oded - 2026

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Nudging sustainable farming : experimental evidence on the role of budget constraints and agricultural subsidy formats

Nopparuj Chindasombatcharoen; Phumsith Mahasuweerachai - 2026

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Climate change in the classroom

Carattini, Stefano; Giustinelli, Pamela; Veronesi, Marcella - 2026

Knowledge gaps and biased beliefs concerning both climate change and climate policy represent major obstacles to the decarbonization process. Climate education may offer a scalable solution to address such obstacles. In the context of a national reform of the school curriculum in Italy, we...

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Climate change in the classroom

Carattini, Stefano; Giustinelli, Pamela; Veronesi, Marcella - 2026

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Climate change in the classroom

Carattini, Stefano; Giustinelli, Pamela; Veronesi, Marcella - 2026

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Defaulting investors toward sustainability : a field experiment

Hornuf, Lars; Merkle, Christoph; Zeisberger, Stefan - 2026

We provide the first field experimental evidence on how default options influence sustainable investment choices. Using a real-world investment setting that avoids experimenter demand effects and enables realistic estimates of effect sizes, we find that setting a sustainable investment as the...

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Defaulting investors toward sustainability : a field experiment

Hornuf, Lars; Merkle, Christoph; Zeisberger, Stefan - 2025

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Judging the problem : a problem- centric approach to early-stage venture evaluations

Lane, Jacqueline N.; Zhang, Miaomiao - 2026

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2026

Integration agreements (IA) outline the efforts the jobseeker should undertake to find employment and specify the services that the caseworker would provide to assist them in their job search. The agreements include a declaration of legal consequences, and punitive benefit sanctions could be...

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2024

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2024

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Worker reciprocity and the returns to training : evidence from a field experiment

Sauermann, Jan - 2023

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Worker reciprocity and the returns to training : evidence from a field experiment

Sauermann, Jan - 2026

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Worker reciprocity and the returns to training : evidence from a field experiment

Sauermann, Jan - 2020

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Worker reciprocity and the returns to training : evidence from a field experiment

Sauermann, Jan - 2015

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Worker Reciprocity and the Returns to Training : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sauermann, Jan - 2015

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Does Message Framing Matter for Tax Compliance? Evidence from a WhatsApp Field Experiment

Antonacci, Paulo; Chattha, Muhammad Khudadad; Soko, … - 2026

This study evaluates whether low-cost digital nudges delivered via WhatsApp can improve property tax compliance in Gorontalo, Indonesia. In a randomized controlled trial, individuals were as-signed to receive either (i) a soft-tone message emphasizing civic duty and public benefits, (ii) a...

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Nudging automatic debit for property tax : evidence from two natural field experiments

Nishihata, Masaya; Kobayashi, Yōhei; Ishikawa, Takayuki - 2026

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Gender differences in learning about a spouse's health : field and experimental evidence

Jia, Ruo; Mo, Jiawei; Zhang, Chang; Zheng, Jiakun - 2026

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When needs change norms : experimental evidence that income shocks undermine norm-driven cooperation in forest commons

Atella-Suri, Dominik; Börner, Jan; Kebebew, Zerihun; … - 2026

Forest protection contributes to climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Yet negative income shocks can induce local forest users to increase extraction in order to cope with economic hardship. We study how social norms shape collaborative forest management when communities face...

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Basic needs satisfaction as a fundamental distributive principle : evidence from the lab and the field

Dohmen, Thomas; Meyer, Frauke; Walkowitz, Gari - 2026

This paper provides clear evidence that concerns for basic needs satisfaction (BNS) represent a distinct distributional motive. Using a unified theoretical and experimental framework across five dictatorgame experiments in Germany and Georgia (N=446), we disentangle BNS from motives such as...

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Basic needs satisfaction as a fundamental distributive principle : evidence from the lab and the field

Dohmen, Thomas; Meyer, Frauke; Walkowitz, Gari - 2026 - This version: February 9, 2026

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The trade-off between quality and quantity : evidence from a field experiment on tutoring

Shah, Rohen - 2026

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The impact of behavioral design and users' choice on smartphone app usage and willingness to pay : a framed field experiment

Timko, Christina; Adena, Maja - 2026

Behavioral design in smartphone apps aims at inducing certain, monetizable behavior, mainly increased engagement, measurable by usage time. Such design is rarely transparent and often restricts users’ ability to make alternative choices. In a framed field experiment, we document that...

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The impact of behavioral design and users’ choice on smartphone app usage and willingness to pay : a framed field experiment

Timko, Christina; Adena, Maja - 2026

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Standing in prisoners' shoes : a randomized trial on how incarceration shapes criminal justice preferences

Arman, Arto; Beerli, Andreas; Henkel, Aljosha; … - 2026

We study how incarceration experience shapes preferences for criminal justice policies. In collaboration with a newly opened prison, we conducted a randomized field experiment that o!ered citizens the opportunity to experience up to two days of incarceration, closely replicating the real-life...

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Standing in prisoners' shoes : a randomized trial on how incarceration shapes criminal justice preferences

Arman, Arto; Beerli, Andreas; Henkel, Aljosha; … - 2026

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Does happiness spread within organizations? : evidence from a field experiment in Norway

Hanson, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Åshild; Kotsadam, Andreas; … - 2026

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Information framing and student decisions : evidence from an opportunity cost intervention

Behlen, Lars; Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, … - 2026

Opportunity costs are central to economic decision-making but often neglected. In a pre-registered experiment with 2,222 German university freshmen, one treatment provides salary information; another additionally frames it as the opportunity cost of delayed graduation. Only the opportunity cost...

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Financial and non-financial incentives, and the crowding-out effect : evidence from a field experiment on residential electricity consumption in Switzerland

Favre-Bulle, Valentin; Weber, Sylvain - 2026 - Draft

We examine the impact of monetary and non-monetary incentives, individually and combined, on residential electricity consumption. A field experiment in Switzerland provided all participants with access to a custom-developed app offering feedback on electricity use and energy-saving tips. In...

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The effect of network degree on bargaining : experimental evidence from the field

D'Exelle, Ben; Gutekunst, Christine; Riedl, Arno - 2026 - Original version: March 2025, this version: February 2026

We conduct an artefactual field experiment in real-existing trade networks to analyze how individual network degree affects bargaining demands and outcomes. We combine data from a bilateral bargaining experiment with data of trade networks in 24 villages in Uganda. To identify the effect of...

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The effect of network degree on bargaining : experimental evidence from the field

D'Exelle, Ben; Gutekunst, Christine; Riedl, Arno - 2025

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Targeting foundational skills at scale : skill specificity and transfer

De Barros, Andreas; Lubozha, Theresa - 2026

Whether targeted foundational instruction yields broad, long-term human capital gains is central to education policy but largely untested. We provide causal evidence from Zambia's government-run foundational skills program in public primary schools. After two years, a randomized trial shows the...

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Expanding horizons : a randomized controlled trial on adolescents' career information acquisition

Badini, Sofia; Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; … - 2026

We implement a randomized controlled trial in a low-income context to investigate whether students in lower-secondary school acquire information about potential career paths more effectively if this information is preceded by a task that allows students to explore their own interests and if the...

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Expanding horizons : a randomized controlled trial on adolescents' career information acquisition

Badini, Sofia; Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; … - 2024

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A comment on "Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia"

Auer, Tobias; Ruedin, Didier - 2026

Cahyadi et al. (2020) examine the cumulative effects of conditional cash transfer programs in Indonesia after 2 and 6 years. They find beneficial effects for several of the indicators targeted by the cash transfer programme. They find a substantial increase in childcare using trained...

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Guidance over adoption : experimental evidence on AI-assisted learning

Gallegos, Sebastian - 2026

This paper estimates the causal effect of a large language model-based study assistant on student behavior and learning outcomes in a natural field setting with real academic stakes. I design and deploy a course-specific AI assistant (GPT-UAI) for undergraduate econometrics and evaluate it...

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Online green persuasions and offline behaviour : evidence from a randomised field experiment on Rakuten's e-commerce platform in Japan

Ishikawa, Takayuki; Yokoo, Hide-Fumi; Kobayashi, Yōhei; … - 2026

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A brave new world of hiring : a natural field experiment on how asynchronous interviews and AI assessment reshape recruitment

Avery, Mallory; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, … - 2026

Recent technological advancements are reshaping pathways to employment by automating the interview process. Asynchronous interviews, in which job applicants submit answers to interview questions via an online platform without interacting with an interviewer, are replacing more traditional...

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Motivating job seekers : a field experiment

Cockx, Bart; Egebark, Johan; Van Hoye, Greet; Videnord, … - 2026

Reduced motivation among jobseekers over the unemployment spell may lead to declining job-finding rates. We report findings from a low-cost digital intervention with motivational emails aimed at enhancing and sustaining motivation and search effort among job seekers in Sweden. Using a randomized...

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Motivating job seekers : a field experiment

Cockx, Bart; Egebark, Johan; Van Hoye, Greet; Videnord, … - 2026

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Off-peak charging incentives for electric vehicles: experimental evidence from South Korea

Woo, David; Kim, Yeong Jae; Park, David Sungho; Han, Sangwoo - 2026

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Team gender composition and firm performance : experimental evidence from solar entrepreneurs in Rwanda

Clarke, Rowan; Eaglin, F. Christopher; Barron, Manuel; … - 2026

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Screening with cash deposits in digital credit markets

Gertler, Paul J.; Green, Brett; Wolfram, Catherine - 2026

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Screening with Cash Deposits in Digital Credit Markets

Gertler, Paul J.; Green, Brett; Wolfram, Catherine - 2026

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Does field of study shape the gender wage gap? : the role of migration background

De Vos, Louise; Rycx, François; Senterre, Thomas; … - 2026

Using matched employer-employee data on more than 62,000 master's graduates, this paper examines how gender differences in wage returns to fields of study vary by migration background and how educational specialisation contributes to the gender wage gap. We estimate wage regressions and apply a...

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Does field of study shape the gender wage gap? : the role of migration background

De Vos, Louise; Rycx, François; Senterre, Thomas; … - 2026

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Does field of study shape the gender wage gap? : the role of migration background

De Vos, Louise; Rycx, François; Senterre, Thomas; … - 2026

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Does field of study shape the gender wage gap? : the role of migration background

De Vos, Louise; Rycx, François; Senterre, Thomas; … - 2026

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Norms behind closed doors : a field experiment on gender norm misperceptions and maternal employment decisions in couples

Boltz, Marie; Bustelo, Monserrat; Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; … - 2026

This paper studies whether gender gaps in women's labor-market outcomes are sustained by systematic misperceptions about social and spousal support for maternal employment. Using a representative sample of 1,732 cohabiting couples with young children in Bogotá, we show that while support for...

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Correcting beliefs about job opportunities and wages : a field experiment on education choices

Koning, Bart K. de; Dur, Robert A. J.; Fouarge, Didier - 2026

In a natural field experiment, we provide information to students about job opportunities and hourly wages of occupations they are interested in. The experiment takes place within a widely-used career orientation program in the Netherlands, and involves 28,186 pre-vocational secondary education...

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Correcting beliefs about job opportunities and wages : a field experiment on education choices

Koning, Bart K. de; Dur, Robert A. J.; Fouarge, Didier - 2025

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Innovation without borders? : the geography of technological diffusion

Baumann, Ursel; Cullen, Zoë B.; Faia, Ester; Ferrando, … - 2026

How well does innovation diffuse across geographic boundaries? To shed light on this question, we present a large-scale field experiment involving 3,300 firms across twelve European Union countries. We elicit firms' perceptions of the share of similar firms in their own country that had invested...

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Innovation without borders? : the geography of technological diffusion

Baumann, Ursel; Cullen, Zoë B.; Faia, Ester; Ferrando, … - 2026

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Indoor environment, student satisfaction and performance in higher education

Flagner, Stefan; Eichholtz, Piet; Kok, Nils; Kramer, Rick; … - 2026

This study examines how improvements in indoor environmental quality affect student satisfaction and academic performance in higher education. We conducted a randomized field experiment involving 1,258 first-year undergraduate students at Maastricht University, who were randomly assigned to...

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Social media advertising loads as prices

Beknazar-Yuzbashev, George; Jiménez Durán, Rafael; … - 2026

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Social media advertising loads as prices

Beknazar-Yuzbashev, George; Jiménez Durán, Rafael; … - 2026

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Introducing and terminating monetary incentives in non-regenerating forests : insights from a framed field experiment

Hönow, Nils Christian; Bensch, Gunther; Kirk, Michael - 2026

In regions with low soil fertility, smallholder farmers often clear forest to sustain agricultural yields. This pattern becomes more problematic where forest regrowth is slow, contributing to local forest loss and global environmental challenges such as climate change and biodiversity decline....

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The value of bonding at work : evidence from a field experiment

Belot, Michèle; Hakimov, Rustamdjan - 2026

We design an intervention to foster social ties at work and evaluate its impact on performance and retention. We run a cluster-randomized field experiment in a large microfinance firm, providing small subsidies for geographically spread offices to organize biweekly social activities over three...

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The value of bonding at work : evidence from a field experiment

Belot, Michèle; Hakimov, Rustamdjan - 2025

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Does ethnic discrimination vary across minority groups? : evidence from a field experiment

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - 2026

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Do positional concerns trigger entrepreneurial decisions? : evidence from survey experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2026

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Gambling for retirement : the economics of savings lotteries

Gars, Jared; Holz, Justin; Rodemeier, Matthias; Villa, … - 2026

Governments frequently use lottery-like incentives to encourage socially desirable behavior ("Pigouvian lotteries"). We study lotteries that encourage retirement savings in a nationwide field experiment with over 380,000 participants in Colombia's public pension system. Lotteries increase...

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Fundraising goals and charitable giving

Oslislo, Christoph; Schwerter, Frederik - 2026

We study fundraising goals in two preregistered natural field experiments with regular donors of a large international charity (N = 109,945 and N = 47,864). Fundraising goals increase giving by 26%, comparable to the effect of lead donor information (17%). Combining both instruments increases...

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The impact of generative AI adoption on organizational networks : evidence from a field experiment

Büchsenschuss, Ralf; Koch, Irmela; Biemann, Torsten; … - 2026

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Can facebook ads prevent Malaria? : two field experiments in India

Donati, Dante; Rao, Nandan; Orozco-Olvera, Victor H.; … - 2026

This study evaluates a nationwide malaria prevention campaign delivered through social media in India using a district-level cluster-randomized controlled trial. We combine two survey samples(N = 8,253) with administrative health records to assess effects on offline malaria-related behaviors and...

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Nonlinear pricing and revealed salience

Gennaioli, Nicola; Rodemeier, Matthias; Sun, Gregory - 2026

On a major e-commerce platform, we randomize linear promotions applying a δ% discount and nonlinear ones applying the same discount above a spending threshold of M€. We unveil a striking fact: nonlinear schemes create bunching at M but no global self-selection above M relative to linear...

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Mapping AI into production : a field experiment on firm performance

Kim, Hyunjin; Kim, Dahyeon; Koning, Rembrand - 2026

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GenAI adoption increases the density of knowledge and collaboration networks : evidence from a field experiment

Büchsenschuss, Ralf; Koch, Irmela; Biemann, Torsten; … - 2026

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