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1.

What is Program Evaluation? A Beginners Guide (Presentation Slides)

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 27 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2020
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Gene Shackman
The Global Social Change Research Project
Downloads 16,534
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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-304
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarraran, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severin
Inter-American Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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3.

p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2018
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Ron Berman, Leonid Pekelis, Aisling Scott and Christophe Van den Bulte
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, OpenDoor, Independent and University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department
Downloads 5,850
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Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 23 May 2013 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness

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Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large

Management Science, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 2-20, January 2012
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2013
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Martijn J. van den Assem, Dennie van Dolder and Richard H. Thaler
VU Amsterdam - School of Business and Economics, VU Amsterdam - School of Business and Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 5,127
6.

Are Good-Looking People More Employable?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2014
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Bradley J. Ruffle and Ze'ev Shtudiner
McMaster University and Ariel University - Department of Economics
Downloads 5,075
7.

The (True) Legacy of Two Really Existing Economic Systems

Munich Discussion Paper No. 2014-26
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2015
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Dan Ariely, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf and Heather Mann
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Bremen - Faculty of Business Studies and Economics and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
Downloads 3,887
8.

The Unfavorable Economics of Measuring the Returns to Advertising

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2014
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Randall A. Lewis and Justin M. Rao
Netflix and Microsoft Research
Downloads 3,399
9.

Volume and Price Patterns Around a Stock's 52-Week Highs and Lows: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
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Steven J. Huddart, Mark H. Lang and Michelle Yetman
Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Accounting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management

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10.

Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions

Yale Economic Applications and Policy Discussion Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 May 2006
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Alan Gerber, Dean S. Karlan and Daniel Bergan
Yale University - Department of Political Science, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Yale University
Downloads 3,265
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Ghost Ads: Improving the Economics of Measuring Online Ad Effectiveness

Simon Business School Working Paper No. FR 15-21
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 19 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2017
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Garrett Johnson, Randall A. Lewis and Elmar Nubbemeyer
Questrom School of Business, Netflix and Google Inc.
Downloads 3,010
12.

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 03-22
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Jul 2003
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Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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13.

Health Services As Credence Goods: A Field Experiment

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2019
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Felix C.H. Gottschalk, Wanda Mimra and Christian Waibel
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 02 May 2014 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2015
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Christopher Blattman and Jeannie Annan
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and International Rescue Committee

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Conflict and Cooperation within an Organization: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Number of pages: 176 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012
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David Zetland
Leiden University - Leiden University College
Downloads 2,392
16.

Consumer Demand for the Fair Trade Label: Evidence from a Multi-Store Field Experiment

Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming, Formerly: MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2011-9B
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2014
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Jens Hainmueller, Michael J. Hiscox and Sandra Sequeira
Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Harvard University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics
Downloads 2,170
17.

Artificial Intelligence: Robots, Avatars and the Demise of the Human Mediator

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 26 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2014
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David Allen Larson
Mitchell | Hamline School of Law
Downloads 2,028
18.

Incrementality Bidding & Attribution

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2018
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Randall A. Lewis and Jeffrey Wong
Netflix and Netflix
Downloads 2,022
19.

Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 Sep 2005
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Thomas J. Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp and Gert G. Wagner
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), briq - Institute on Behavior & Inequality, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

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20.

Who's a Pretty Boy then? Or Beauty Contests, Rationality and Greater Fools

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Apr 2004
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James Montier
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein - Global Equity Strategy
Downloads 1,918
21.

A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 06-6
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Jul 2006
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Stephan Meier
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Downloads 1,874
22.

Internet Filtering in China

IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2003
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Apr 2003
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Jonathan L. Zittrain and Benjamin G. Edelman
Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University - HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit
Downloads 1,865
23.

Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market

Forthcoming in Social Forces
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2015
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S. Michael Gaddis
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Sociology
Downloads 1,655
24.

Micro-Symposium on Orin Kerr's 'A Theory of Law'

Green Bag 2d, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2013, pp. 213-226, Journal of Law: A Periodical Laboratory of Legal Scholarship, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012, pp. 487-502, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 13-05, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 13-105
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
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Laura I Appleman, Shawn Bayern, Adam D. Chandler, Robert Cheren, Miriam A. Cherry, Ross E. Davies, Lee Anne Fennell, Paul A. Gowder, Caitlin Hartsell, Kieran Healy, Robert A. James, Jeffrey H. Kahn, Orin S. Kerr, Jacob T. Levy, Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Orly Lobel, Geoffrey A. Manne, Chad M. Oldfather, Ronak Patel, Jeffrey A. Pojanowski, Alexandra J. Roberts, Kent Scheidegger, Arthur Stock and Anders Walker
Willamette University College of Law, Florida State University - College of Law, Yale University - Law School, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Saint Louis University - School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, University of Chicago - Law School, University of Iowa - College of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Harry W. Walborsky Professor, Florida State University College of Law; Associate Dean, Business Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, McGill University - Department of Political Science, Suffolk University Law School, University of San Diego School of Law, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), Marquette University - Law School, Independent, Notre Dame Law School, University of New Hampshire School of Law, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Berger & Montague, P .C. and Saint Louis University - School of Law
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A Cold Shower for the Hot Hand Fallacy: Robust Evidence that Belief in the Hot Hand is Justified

IGIER Working Paper No. 518
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2019
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Joshua B. Miller and Adam Sanjurjo
University of Melbourne - Department of Economics and Universidad de Alicante - Fundamentos del Análisis Económico (FAE)
Downloads 1,627
26.

Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 941, Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 108
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Jul 2006
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Dean S. Karlan and Martin Valdivia
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
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27.

Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless and Risky Choices

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2961
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Aug 2007
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Simon Gaechter, Eric J. Johnson and Andreas Herrmann
University of Nottingham, Columbia Business School - Marketing and University of St. Gallen - MCM Institute
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28.

Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 06-36
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 15 Dec 2006
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Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 23 May 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2015
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Christopher Blattman, Eric Green, Julian C. Jamison, M. Christian Lehmann and Jeannie Annan
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute, University of Exeter Business School - Department of Economics, University of Brasília and International Rescue Committee

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31.

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(1), 104-35, Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 09-116, FRB of New York Staff Report No. 373
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 09 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2013
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Shawn Allen Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Robert M. Townsend, Petia B. Topalova and James I. Vickery
Harvard Business School, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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32.

Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016
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Kevin Boudreau, Eva Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani and Christoph Riedl
Northeastern University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Downloads 1,420
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Types of Economic Behavior: The Instrument for Management of Individuals, Institutions, Countries and Humankind

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 02 Nov 2011
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Anatoliy A. (Anatolii) Shiyan (Shyian) and Liliya O. Nikiforova
Independent Research Group “Analytics in Economics and Security” and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)
Downloads 1,412
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Location, Location, Location: Repetition and Proximity Increase Advertising Effectiveness

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 May 2013 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2016
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Garrett Johnson, Randall A. Lewis and David Reiley
Questrom School of Business, Netflix and Pandora Media, Inc.
Downloads 1,391
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What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 968, Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 58
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Jan 2009
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Marianne Bertrand, Dean S. Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Dartmouth College
Downloads 1,389
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Place Based Interventions at Scale: The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 12 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2019
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Christopher Blattman, Donald P. Green, Daniel Ortega and Santiago Tobon
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, Columbia University, CAF Development Bank of Latin America and Universidad EAFIT

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Downloads 1,360
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Dynamics of Retail Advertising: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Economic Inquiry, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2015
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Duncan Simester, Yu Jeffrey Hu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Eric Anderson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Northwestern University - Department of Marketing

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Online Social Interactions: A Natural Experiment on Word of Mouth Versus Observational Learning

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2014
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Yubo Chen, Qi Wang and Jinhong Xie
Tsinghua University, School of Economics & Management, Binghamton University and University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration
Downloads 1,286
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How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? A Field Experiment

Management Science, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 828-842, May 2011
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 26 May 2011
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Catherine E. Tucker and Juanjuan Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 1,253
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Is It a Fallacy to Believe in the Hot Hand in the NBA Three-Point Contest?

IGIER Working Paper No. 548
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 May 2015 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
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Joshua B. Miller and Adam Sanjurjo
University of Melbourne - Department of Economics and Universidad de Alicante - Fundamentos del Análisis Económico (FAE)
Downloads 1,234
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What do Private Firms Look Like?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2011
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John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
UCLA, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance and Stockholm School of Economics

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42.

Considering Class: College Access and Diversity

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-18
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2013
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Matthew Gaertner and Melissa Hart
Center for College and Career Success and University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 1,131
43.

The Psychophysiology of Real-Time Financial Risk Processing

MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. 4223-01; MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering Working Paper No. LFE-1039-01
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Sep 2001
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Andrew W. Lo and Dmitry V. Repin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management

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Downloads 1,072
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Decision Making Under Risk in Deal or No Deal

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Feb 2006
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Nicolas de Roos and Yianis Sarafidis
University of Sydney and Charles River Associates (CRA)
Downloads 1,061
45.

Microfinance Games

Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 936
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 Jun 2006
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Xavier Giné, Pamela Jakiela, Dean S. Karlan and Jonathan Morduch
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), University of Maryland, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

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Downloads 1,054
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Survey

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 866; IZA Discussion Paper No. 715
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Mar 2003
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Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher, Bernhard von Rosenbladt, Jürgen Schupp and Gert G. Wagner
University of Zurich - Department of Economics, University of Konstanz - Faculty of Economics and Statistics, NFO Infratest Sozialforschung, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
Downloads 1,043
47.

Field Experiments

UCF Economics Working Paper No. 03-12
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 18 Apr 2005
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Glenn W. Harrison and John A. List
Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,039
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The Visible Hand: Race and Online Market Outcomes

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 May 2010 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2017
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Jennifer L. Doleac and Luke C.D. Stein
Texas A&M University - Department of Economics and Babson College

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Downloads 1,026
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Understanding Investor Sentiment: The Case of Soccer

Financial Management, Vol. 40, pp. 357-380, 2011
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
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Gennaro (帅纳) Bernile and Evgeny Lyandres
University of Miami - Department of Finance and Boston University

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The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 07 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2019
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Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness

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