SSRN JEL Code: C93

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 16,820

2.

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

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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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,399

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 6,067

4.

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,663

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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

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam - School of Business and Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 5,257

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 5,175

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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 3,938

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 3,501

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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 3,496

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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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,424

11.

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 3,278

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,020

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

Downloads 2,729

14.

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 2,517

15.

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,467

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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 2,422

17.

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 2,201

18.

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 2,105

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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), University of Bonn - Economic Science Area, 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)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,091

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 1,941

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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 1,888

22.

Internet Filtering in China

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 1,888

23.

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

Downloads 1,707

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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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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, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke University, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Harry M. 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

Downloads 1,705

25.

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 1,678

26.

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

27.

A Comparison of Approaches to Advertising Measurement: Evidence from Big Field Experiments at Facebook

Forthcoming at Marketing Science

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2018

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Brett R. Gordon, Florian Zettelmeyer, Neha Bhargava and Dan Chapsky

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Facebook and Facebook

Downloads 1,618

28.

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 1,595

29.

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)

Downloads 1,527

30.

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

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,503

31.

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,500

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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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,488

33.

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 1,445

34.

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 Philadelphia

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,436

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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 1,423

36.

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 1,419

37.

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 1,327

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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, Stanford and Northwestern University - Department of Marketing

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,316

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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 1,303

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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 1,270

41.

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,240

42.

Preparedness of Online Classes in Developing Countries amid COVID-19 Outbreak: A Perspective from Bangladesh

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Jul 2020

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Md. Golam Ramij and Afrin Sultana

Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka and University of Dhaka - Faculty of Business Studies

Downloads 1,216

43.

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

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44.

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,137

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

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 1,095

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