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Jul 27, 2018
Chetty, Raj; Saez, Emmanuel, 2018, "Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/40AKNU, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We conducted a randomized experiment with 43,000 EITC recipients at H&R Block. Tax preparers gave simple, personalized information about the EITC schedule to half of their clients. We find no significant effects of information provision on earnings in the subsequent year in the full sample. Further exploration uncovers evidence of heterogeneous tre... |
Jul 18, 2018
Oreopoulos, Philip, 2018, "Replication Data for: Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Thirteen Thousand Resumes", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WXMJCN, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Thousands of randomly manipulated resumes were sent in response to online job postings in Toronto to investigate why immigrants, allowed in based on skill, struggle in the labor market. The study finds substantial discrimination across a variety of occupations towards applicants with foreign experience or those with Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, and... |
Jul 13, 2018
Coffman, Lucas C.; Featherstone, Clayton R.; Kessler, Judd B., 2018, "Replication Data for: Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JGE7FM, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We show that the provision of social information influences a high-stakes decision and this influence persists over time. In a field experiment involving thousands of admits to Teach For America, those told about the previous year's matriculation rate are more likely to accept a teaching job, complete training, start, and return a second year. To s... |
Jul 13, 2018
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Pande, Rohini; Ryan, Nicholas, 2018, "Replication Data for: What Does Reputation Buy? Differentiation in a Market for Third-Party Auditors", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T6HEYF, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We study differences in quality in the market for third-party environmental auditors in Gujarat, India. We find that, despite the low overall quality, auditors are heterogeneous and some perform well. We posit that these high-quality auditors survive by using their good name to insulate select client plants from regulatory scrutiny. We find two pie... |
Jul 11, 2018
Jack, Kelsey, 2018, "Replication Data for: Private Information and the Allocation of Land Use Subsidies in Malawi", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SMU6PT, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Efficient targeting of public programs is difficult when the cost or benefit to potential recipients is private information. This study illustrates the potential of self-selection to improve allocational outcomes in the context of a program that subsidizes tree planting in Malawi. Landholders who received a tree planting contract as a result of bid... |
Jul 10, 2018
Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F., 2018, "Replication Data for: The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institutions to fictitious resumes and apply to real vacancy postings for business and health jobs on a large online job board. We find that a business bachelor's degree from a for-profit online institutio... |
Jul 10, 2018
Seira, Enrique; Elizondo, Alan; Laguna-Müggenburg, Eduardo, 2018, "Are Information Disclosures Effective? Evidence from the Credit Card Market", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GRRSC7, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Consumer protection in financial markets in the form of information disclosure is high on government agendas, even though there is little evidence of its effectiveness. We implement a randomized control trial in the credit card market for a large population of indebted cardholders and measure the impact of Truth-in-Lending-Act-type disclosures, de-... |
Jul 10, 2018
Attanasio, Orazio; Barr, Abigail; Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Genicot, Garance; Meghir, Costas, 2018, "Replication Data for: Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/16OAH0, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Using data from an experiment conducted in 70 Colombian communities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when trust is crucial for enforcing risk pooling arrangements. We explore the roles played by risk attitudes and social networks. Both empirically and theoretically, we find that close friends and relatives group assortatively on risk attitu... |
Jul 10, 2018
Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; De Haas, Ralph; Fitzsimons, Emla; Harmgart, Heike, 2018, "Replication Data for: The Impacts of Microfinance: Evidence from Joint-Liability Lending in Mongolia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CMUPCH, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We present evidence from a randomized field experiment in rural Mongolia to assess the poverty impacts of a joint-liability microcredit program targeted at women. We find a positive impact of access to group loans on female entrepreneurship and household food consumption but not on total working hours or income in the household. A simultaneously in... |
Jul 10, 2018
Allcott, Hunt; Rogers, Todd, 2018, "The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OCRH8F, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. First, initial reports cause high-frequency "action and backsliding," but these cycles attenuate over time. Second, if reports are discontinued after two years, effec... |
