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Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment in Operationalizing AI Ethics [PDF]
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2020 Why do biased algorithmic predictions arise, and what interventions can prevent them? We examine this topic with a field experiment about using machine learning to predict human capital.
Bo Cowgill +5 more
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Higher socioeconomic status does not predict decreased prosocial behavior in a field experiment
Nature Communications, 2021 Does higher socioeconomic status predict decreased prosocial behavior? Methodological issues such as the reliance of survey studies on self-reported measures of prosociality, the insufficient control of relative incentives in experiments, and the use of ...
J. Andreoni, N. Nikiforakis, J. Stoop
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Field Experiments with Firms [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011 We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long-standing research questions relating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments—within and across firms—and draw common lessons from both sets. Field experiments within firms generally aim to shed light on the nature of agency problems.
Bandiera, Oriana +2 more
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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020 We design a field experiment to study how the allocation of authority between frontline procurement officers and their monitors affects performance both directly and through the response to incentives.
O. Bandiera +3 more
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Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 This paper studies the spread of compliance behavior in neighborhood networks in Austria. We exploit a field experiment that varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees.
Francesco Drago, F. Mengel, C. Traxler
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Social Advertising Effectiveness Across Products: A Large-Scale Field Experiment
Marketing science (Providence, R.I.), 2020 We collaborated with a large online social network to conduct a randomized field experiment measuring social ad effectiveness across 71 products in 25 categories among more than 37 million users.
Shan Huang +3 more
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The Value of Field Experiments [PDF]
Management Science, 2015 The feasibility of using field experiments to optimize marketing decisions remains relatively unstudied. We investigate category pricing decisions that require estimating a large matrix of cross-product demand elasticities and ask the following question: How many experiments are required as the number of products in the category grows?
Li, Jimmy Q. +4 more
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The Role of Theory in Field Experiments [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011 We classify all published field experiments in five top economics journals from 1975 to 2010 according to how closely the experimental design and analysis are linked to economic theory. We find that the vast majority of field experiments (68 percent) are Descriptive studies that lack any explicit model; 18 percent are Single Model studies that test a ...
Malmendier, Ulrike +2 more
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Field Experiments on Social Media
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2021 Online behavioral data, such as digital traces from social media, have the potential to allow researchers an unprecedented new window into human behavior in ecologically valid everyday contexts. However, research using such data is often purely observational, which limits its usefulness for identifying causal relationships.
Mohsen Mosleh +2 more
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Field experiments in strategy research [PDF]
Strategic Management Journal, 2014 Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects with high confidence.
Chatterji, Aaron K. +4 more
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