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Alcohol and Self-Control: A Field Experiment in India.
The American Economic Review, 2019 This paper studies alcohol consumption among low-income workers in India. In a 3-week field experiment, the majority of 229 cycle-rickshaw drivers were willing to forgo substantial monetary payments in order to set incentives for themselves to remain ...
Frank Schilbach
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Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin☆
Journal of Development Economics, 2019 Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies.
A. Arouna, J. Michler, J. Lokossou
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Journal of Chemical Education, 2003 I teach, you learn. Sound familiar? With an appropriate amount of “drill and kill”, this can broaden a student’s field of experience. Learning can take place under these circumstances, yet we can all broaden our fields of experience by considering better ways.
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Journal of Political Economy, 2019 Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet causal evidence regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for skilled labor in the developed world.
Greer K. Gosnell, J. List, R. Metcalfe
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Randomization in field experiments [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter discusses several important topics related to randomization in field experiments. In the field, researchers face constraints in the design they can implement and/or the type of data that can be collected. The chapter looks at such constraints from the point of view of randomization.
Peter, N., Soetevent, A.R.
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Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work.
Christiane Bradler +3 more
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Gamification as a tool for engaging student learning: A field experiment with a gamified app
E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019 In this paper, we reflect on the implementation of a gamified application for helping students learn important facts about their study program. We focus on two design features, of which different configurations were tested in a field experiment among ...
Kasper Welbers +5 more
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The Arrangement of Field Experiments [PDF]
, 1992 Author's note. From about 1923 onwards the Statistical Department at Rothamsted had been much concerned with the precision of field experiments in agriculture, and with modifications in their design, having the dual aim of increasing the precision and of providing a valid estimate of error.
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Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
, 2016 In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African American names are 16 percent less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively white names.
Benjamin Edelman +2 more
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 We study a field experiment at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements. The company randomly assigned nineteen teams into treatment and control groups. Treatment team employees received rewards if their ideas were approved. Nothing changed for control team employees.
Gibbs, Michael +2 more
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