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Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies
Social Science Research Network, 2022 This paper explores global perceptions and understanding of climate change and policies, examining factors that influence support for climate action and the impact of different types of information.
Antoine Dechezleprêtre +5 more
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Designing Information Provision Experiments
Social Science Research Network, 2020 Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents.
Ingar K. Haaland +2 more
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Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand
The American Economic Review, 2018 We propose a technique for assessing robustness to demand effects of findings from experiments and surveys. The core idea is that by deliberately inducing demand in a structured way we can bound its influence.
Jonathan de Quidt +2 more
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Parental Paternalism and Patience
Social Science Research NetworkIZA DP No. 14030 JANUARY 2021 Parental Paternalism and Patience* We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making.
Lukas Kiessling +3 more
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Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Differences
The American Economic ReviewWe investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking: the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of 20,400 US residents, we measure zero-sum thinking, political preferences, policy
Sahil Chinoy +3 more
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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable backgrounds. Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children
David H. Autor +4 more
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Five Facts about MPCs: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
The American Economic ReviewWe present five facts from an experiment on the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of transitory transfers: (1) the one-month MPC on a cash-like transfer is 23 percent; (2) it is substantially higher (61 percent) on a transfer administered via a ...
J. Boehm, Etienne Fize, Xavier Jaravel
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Consumer Spending during Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications
The American Economic Review, 2019 Using de-identified bank account data, we show that spending drops sharply at the large and predictable decrease in income arising from the exhaustion of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
Peter Ganong, P. Noel
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American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsUsing British data on over 7 million residential property sales, we find that the simplified energy efficiency (EE) information leads to important market effects.
Rodolfo Sejas-Portillo +2 more
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Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Social Science Research NetworkWe conduct a field experiment with US households to study how expectations about long-run home price growth shape spending decisions. We exogenously vary survey respondents' expectations by providing different expert forecasts.
Felix Chopra +2 more
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