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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Randomized field experiment"”.
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Three essays on social influence in social advertising using a large-scale randomized field experiment
… with a social networking app for a large-scale randomized field experiment on its social ads. In the experiment, the presence and the number of social cues were randomly assigned among 57 million ad-user pairs (more than 37 million subjects and across 71 products in 25 product categories). …
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Three essays in public economics
… The second paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment to study the impact of choice in charitable giving; in this experiment half of the recipients of a newsletter from a Dutch NGO were able to choose what program area their donation would be spent on. There is no difference …
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Information as an Environmental Policy Instrument: Examining Household Response to Arsenic in Tube-Well Water in Araihazar, Bangladesh
… on tube-well switching behavior, by employing a randomized field experiment. In chapter 4, an instrumental variables approach is used to understand whether a household's decision to switch sources is affected by its proximate neighbors' decisions to switch sources. To answer these questions, …
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Essays on cognition in development economics
… and evaluated their effectiveness with a randomized field experiment in Delhi, India. We found that the intervention produced enduring improvements in the exercised abilities, but that these improvements did not translate into improved formal mathematics skills. The second chapter asks …
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ESSAYS ON CUSTOMER ANALYTICS IN MOBLIE ECOSYSTEMS
… decision outcomes and market. I conduct two randomized field experiments and find that the impact of the recommendation systems is higher for the mobile channel than the PC channel on customer-level decision outcomes. With respect to the market, I observe no direct effect of recommendation …
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Essays on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence and Future of Knowledge Work
… of generative AI on knowledge work through a randomized field experiment in the copywriting industry. This analysis explores how AI-driven tools not only enhance content creation but also impact productivity, creativity, and workers’ subjective feelings of ownership over their work. The …
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Towards better management of organizational cybersecurity
… four data sources. By conducting a large-scale field experiment using the rating system, we find a causal relationship between security awareness and protection level. Second, we develop a game-theoretical model that characterizes a real-time dynamic interaction between an unidentified attacker …
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ESSAYS ON EDUCATION INVESTMENT DECISIONS
… investments in children's education using a randomized field experiment with parents of high school students in China. I document two types of information frictions that result in systematic biases in parents' beliefs about children's ability: overconfidence in future performance and …
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Essays on Strategic Behavior and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Retirement Saving, Insurance, and Intergenerational Contexts
… workplace educational interventions. Using a randomized field experiment conducted in Korea, this study provides causal evidence that a brief and scalable workplace intervention can substantially increase employees’ intended engagement with retirement savings. The effects are particularly …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Economics
… targeted intervention. Chapter 1 conducts field experiments with 196 worker-parent pairs from two companies in China and South Korea and explores factors that affect the similarity of risk preferences between parents and their offspring. In Chinese data, we show more similar risk …
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Essays on the Economics of Climate Action
… three chapters, each of them describing an experimental project studying individual action on climate change in the United States. In the first chapter of my thesis, Hannah Ruebeck and I study whether and how individuals strategically build political movements, focusing on the climate …
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Essays in Development Economics
… with norms about their household roles. In a field experiment with 1,670 households in West Bengal, we over flexible, short-term data entry jobs which meet households where they are in terms of expectations of women’s domestic responsibilities. We find three sets of results. First, flexibility …
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Essays on the determinants of international migration
… the first chapter sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment among 3,319 potential work migrants from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries. The experiment provides them with information on wages and mortality incidences in their choice destination and tracks their …
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Empirical essays in development economics: Evidence from Bolivia
… empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the Bolivian Police. The first experiment arises from the random assignment of both police officers and applicants …