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1.

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 15,378
2.

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

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Downloads 5,219
3.

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)

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Downloads 5,182
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 4,685
5.

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)

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Downloads 4,441
6.

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 4,223
7.

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 3,908
8.

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
Rutgers University, Department of Economics and University of Michigan Law School
Downloads 3,524
9.

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 3,195
10.

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 2,858
11.

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 2,850
12.

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: 30 Sep 2017
Working Paper Series
Joshua Rosner
Graham Fisher & Co.
Downloads 2,763
13.

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

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Downloads 2,643
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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

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Downloads 2,566
15.

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

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Downloads 2,542
16.

The Digital Privacy Paradox: Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5196-17, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-14
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2018
Working Paper Series
Susan Athey, Christian Catalini and Catherine E. Tucker
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)

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Downloads 2,534
17.

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
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Shai Bernstein, Arthur G. Korteweg and Kevin Laws
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and AngelList
Downloads 2,502
18.

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
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George Loewenstein and Emily Celia Haisley
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Yale School of Management
Downloads 2,492
19.

The Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 27 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2017
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Christopher Blattman and Stefan Dercon
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and University of Oxford - Department of Economics

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Downloads 2,466
20.

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 eMBeD (Mind, Behavior, and Development) and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital

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Downloads 2,405
21.

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 2,353
22.

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 2,206
23.

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 2,042
24.

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

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Downloads 1,901
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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
Working Paper Series
Garrett Johnson, Randall A. Lewis and Elmar Nubbemeyer
Kellogg School of Management, Netflix and Google Inc.
Downloads 1,890
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
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Dani Rodrik
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Downloads 1,878
27.

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

Legislative Studies Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2018
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Matthew Mendez and Christian R. Grose
California State University, Channel Islands and University of Southern California
Downloads 1,769
28.

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 1,759
29.

Health Services As Credence Goods: A Field Experiment

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2017
Working Paper Series
Felix Gottschalk, Wanda Mimra and Christian Waibel
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
Downloads 1,694
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The Use of Descriptive Norms in Public Administration: A Panacea for Improving Citizen Behaviours?

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Oct 2014
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Peter John, Michael Sanders and Jennifer Wang
Department of Political Economy, KCL, Cabinet Office (UK) - Behavioural Insights Team and Cabinet Office (UK) - Behavioural Insights Team
Downloads 1,661
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 1,621
32.

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 1,617
33.

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 Chicago and Tufts University
Downloads 1,597
34.

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 1,576
35.

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 1,492
36.

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)

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Downloads 1,450
37.

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), 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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Downloads 1,376
38.

‘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
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Shawn Allen Cole and A. Fernando
Harvard Business School and University of Notre Dame - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,340
39.

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, Yale University, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Princeton University and Dartmouth College
Downloads 1,334
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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
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 eMBeD (Mind, Behavior, and Development), University of Brasília and International Rescue Committee

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Downloads 1,332
41.

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 Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Downloads 1,305
42.

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 and Harvard Business School
Downloads 1,282
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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
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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 1,271
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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 1,270
45.

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
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Political Science and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE)
Downloads 1,245
46.

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 Johnson, Randall A. Lewis and David Reiley
Kellogg School of Management, Netflix and Pandora
Downloads 1,202
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 1,173
48.

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 1,120
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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 1,103
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Location-Based Advertising: A Randomized Field Experiment

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Dominik Molitor, Philipp Reichhart, Martin Spann and Anindya Ghose
Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management) and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 1,103