SSRN Randomized Social Experiments eJournal

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What Happens Before? A Field Experiment Exploring How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway into Organizations

Milkman, K.L., M. Akinola, and D. Chugh. “What Happens Before? A Field Experiment Exploring How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway into Organizations.” Journal of Applied Psychology, Forthcoming,

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 22 May 2012 Last Revised: 04 May 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Katherine L. Milkman, Modupe Akinola and Dolly Chugh

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Downloads 14,273

2.

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 Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,828

3.

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 13-09

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 14 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2013

Working Paper Series

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,716

4.

Are Good-Looking People More Employable?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2014

Working Paper Series

Bradley J. Ruffle and Ze'ev Shtudiner

Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics and Ariel University - Department of Economics

Downloads 4,425

5.

Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2012), pp. 347-383, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-07

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2013

Accepted Paper Series

David Abrams, Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics

Downloads 3,742

6.

Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 73, 2006

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Jun 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig

Columbia University and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

Downloads 3,739

7.

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

Working Paper Series

Alan Gerber, Dean S. Karlan and Daniel Bergan

Yale University - Department of Political Science, Yale University and Yale University

Downloads 3,165

8.

Creating Social Contagion Through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks

Management Science, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 May 2010 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012

Working Paper Series

Sinan Aral and Dylan Walker

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Boston University

Downloads 2,757

9.

Housing in the New Millennium: A Home Without Equity is Just a Rental with Debt

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Joshua Rosner

Graham Fisher & Co.

Downloads 2,689

10.

Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment

U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-012

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 15 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Amanda Y. Agan and Sonja B. Starr

Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of Michigan Law School

Downloads 2,650

11.

The Unfavorable Economics of Measuring the Returns to Advertising

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2014

Working Paper Series

Randall A. Lewis and Justin M. Rao

Netflix and Microsoft Research

Downloads 2,628

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

Working Paper Series

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 2,517

13.

It is Not What You Get But When You Get it: The Effect of Gift Sequence on Deposit Balances and Customer Sentiment in a Commercial Bank

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Feb 2009

Working Paper Series

George Loewenstein and Emily Celia Haisley

Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Yale School of Management

Downloads 2,474

14.

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 12-10

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 16 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 01 May 2012

Working Paper Series

Rema Hanna, Esther Duflo and Michael Greenstone

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,452

15.

Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 185, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 14-17

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 May 2014 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Shai Bernstein, Arthur G. Korteweg and Kevin Laws

Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and AngelList

Downloads 2,344

16.

When does Retargeting Work? Information Specificity in Online Advertising

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 07 May 2013

Working Paper Series

Anja Lambrecht and Catherine E. Tucker

London Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)

Downloads 2,238

17.

What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent 'Lottery'

USPTO Economic Working Paper 2015-5

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 17 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017

Working Paper Series

Joan Farre-Mensa, Deepak Hegde and Alexander Ljungqvist

Harvard Business School, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,178

18.

Education and Hiv/Aids Prevention: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4024

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer and Samuel Sinei

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Downloads 2,152

19.

Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia

Number of pages: 119 Posted: 18 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016

Working Paper Series

Christopher Blattman, Julian C. Jamison and Margaret Sheridan

University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, World Bank Global Insights Initiative and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,087

20.

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

Accepted Paper Series

Jens Hainmueller, Michael J. Hiscox and Sandra Sequeira

Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Harvard University and London School of Economics

Downloads 1,954

21.

The Ticket to Easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-12

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2010

Working Paper Series

Scott Hankins, Mark Hoekstra and Paige Marta Skiba

University of Kentucky, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Vanderbilt University - Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,822

22.

Seeding the S-Curve? The Role of Early Adopters in Diffusion

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Aug 2016

Working Paper Series

Christian Catalini and Catherine E. Tucker

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,744

23.

Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 27 Sep 2016

Working Paper Series

Christopher Blattman and Stefan Dercon

University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and University of Oxford - Department of Economics

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,726

24.

Doubling Down: Inequality in Responsiveness and the Policy Preferences of Elected Officials

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 14-17

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Matthew S. Mendez and Christian R. Grose

affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Southern California

Downloads 1,669

25.

Social Networks, Personalized Advertising, and Privacy Controls

NET Institute Working Paper No. 10-07, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4851-10

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2014

Working Paper Series

Catherine E. Tucker

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)

Downloads 1,657

26.

The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment, but How Shall We Learn?

HKS Working Paper No. RWP08-055

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Nov 2008

Working Paper Series

Dani Rodrik

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 1,614

27.

Identification of Social Interactions

Number of pages: 154 Posted: 18 Aug 2010

Working Paper Series

Lawrence E. Blume, William A. Brock, Steven N. Durlauf and Yannis M. Ioannides

Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Economics and Tufts University

Downloads 1,519

28.

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

Working Paper Series

Garrett A. Johnson, Randall A. Lewis and Elmar I Nubbemeyer

University of Rochester - Simon Business School, Netflix and Google Inc.

Downloads 1,485

29.

Short Selling and Earnings Management: A Controlled Experiment

Journal of Finance, Vol 71, No. 3 (June 2016), pp. 1251-1294

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Vivian W. Fang, Allen Huang and Jonathan M. Karpoff

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Accounting, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Department of Accounting and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business

Downloads 1,476

30.

Tie Strength, Embeddedness & Social Influence: Evidence from a Large Scale Networked Experiment

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2015

Working Paper Series

Sinan Aral and Dylan Walker

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Boston University

Downloads 1,474

31.

The Socially Conscious Consumer? Field Experimental Tests of Consumer Support for Fair Labor Standards

MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2012-15

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 May 2012 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2015

Working Paper Series

Jens Hainmueller and Michael J. Hiscox

Stanford University - Department of Political Science and Harvard University

Downloads 1,466

32.

A Test of the Law of Demand in a Virtual World: Exploring the Petri Dish Approach to Social Science

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2355

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Jul 2008

Working Paper Series

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

Downloads 1,427

33.

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

Accepted Paper Series

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), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Federal Reserve Bank of New York

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,331

34.

The Use of Descriptive Norms in Public Administration: A Panacea for Improving Citizen Behaviours?

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Oct 2014

Working Paper Series

Peter John, Michael Sanders and Jennifer Wang

University College London - School of Public Policy, Cabinet Office (UK) - Behavioural Insights Team and Cabinet Office (UK) - Behavioural Insights Team

Downloads 1,331

35.

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

Working Paper Series

Marianne Bertrand, Dean S. Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Dartmouth College

Downloads 1,301

36.

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

Working Paper Series

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, World Bank Global Insights Initiative, University of Brasília and International Rescue Committee

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,252

37.

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

Working Paper Series

Kevin Boudreau, Eva Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani and Christoph Riedl

Northeastern University - Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Dept. of Economics; College of Computer & Information SciencesHarvard University - Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business

Downloads 1,243

38.

Analyzing the Relationship between Organic and Sponsored Search Advertising: Positive, Negative or Zero Interdependence?

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2012

Working Paper Series

Sha Yang and Anindya Ghose

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Downloads 1,242

39.

‘Mobile’izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability

Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 13-047

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 23 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 03 May 2016

Working Paper Series

Shawn Allen Cole and A. Nilesh Fernando

Harvard Business School and Harvard University

Downloads 1,234

40.

Using Facebook as a Subject Recruitment Tool for Survey-Experimental Research

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014

Working Paper Series

David J. Samuels and Cesar Zucco Jr.

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Political Science and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE)

Downloads 1,108

41.

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 16-069

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Benjamin G. Edelman, Michael Luca and Dan Svirsky

Harvard University - HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School - Negotiations, Organizations & Markets Unit and Harvard Business School

Downloads 1,107

42.

Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Experiences from International Development

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5245

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

Michael Bamberger, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock

affiliation not provided to SSRN, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,095

43.

Do Short Sellers Exacerbate or Mitigate Managerial Myopia? Evidence from Patenting Activities

The 2016 American Finance Association Meetings Paper, 27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2016

Working Paper Series

Jie He and Xuan Tian

University of Georgia - Department of Finance and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance

Downloads 1,053

44.

Race Effects on Ebay

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Sep 2011

Working Paper Series

Ian Ayres, Mahzarin R. Banaji and Christine Jolls

Yale University - Yale Law School, Harvard University - Department of Psychology and Yale Law School

Downloads 1,048

45.

Conducting Experiments for Gaining Customer Insights: A Primer on Causal Research (Part 1 of 2)

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Jan 2016

Working Paper Series

Vikas Mittal

Rice University

Downloads 1,024

46.

Health, Capability, and Justice: Toward a New Paradigm of Health Ethics, Policy and Law

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 21 Sep 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Jennifer Prah Ruger

University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 973

47.

Causal Empiricism in Quantitative Research

Journal of Politics, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 May 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Cyrus Samii

New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics

Downloads 958

48.

Location, Location, Location: Repetition and Proximity Increase Advertising Effectiveness

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 May 2013 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Garrett A. Johnson, Randall A. Lewis and David Reiley Jr.

University of Rochester - Simon Business School, Netflix and Google, Inc.

Downloads 958

49.

School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program

Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 834

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 17 Oct 2001

Working Paper Series

T. Paul Schultz

Yale University - Economic Growth Center

Downloads 948

50.

Which Devil in Development? A Randomized Study of Citizen Actions Supporting Foreign Aid in Uganda

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 14 May 2013

Working Paper Series

Helen V. Milner, Daniel L. Nielson and Michael Findley

Princeton University - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University - Department of Political Science

Downloads 944

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