Self-Control and Chronic Illness: Theory and Evidence From a Field Experiment

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Bai
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Self Control

scholarly journals Job change and self-control of waste pickers: evidence from a field experiment in the Philippines

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Hide-Fumi Yokoo ◽  
Maki Ikuse ◽  
Aries Roda D. Romallosa ◽  
Masahide Horita
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Waste Pickers

Environmental policies may have a negative side effect on employment, often in a specific industry in the short run. Workers in regulated industries can be affected by losses in job-specific human capital. The informal sectors in developing countries are often associated with environmental pollution and thus targeted by such policies. Welfare loss due to this side effect can be problematic in developing countries, since they often lack safeguarding schemes, including unemployment insurance. Inducing workers in informal sectors to change their jobs can mitigate these negative side effects. This study examines efficient methods of inducing informal workers to change jobs. An alternative job is offered to informal workers at a dumpsite in the Philippines and whether changing the scheme of wage payment increases the acceptance of the offer is examined. The impacts of changing payment schemes are evaluated by using a randomized field experiment. The sampled 112 waste pickers each randomly receive one of four offers for an alternative job, and the number of those who accept the offer is observed to evaluate the impact of less frequent payment (i.e., once every three days instead of daily). Piece rates and fixed wages are also compared. Those offered less frequent payment are more likely to accept the job offer compared with those offered daily payment. This preferred payment scheme can mitigate the side effects of environmental policy and workers’ self-control problem related to savings, while minimizing moral hazard.

scholarly journals Do exhausted primary school students cheat more? A randomized field experiment

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0260141
Author(s):  
Tamás Keller ◽  
Hubert János Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Ego Depletion ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Future Research ◽  
School Students ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Cheating Behavior ◽  
Depletion Effect

Motivated by the two-decade-long scientific debate over the existence of the ego-depletion effect, our paper contributes to exploring the scope conditions of ego-depletion theory. Specifically, in a randomized experiment, we depleted students’ self-control with a cognitively demanding task that required students’ effort. We measured the effect of depleted self-control on a subsequent task that required self-control to not engage in fraudulent cheating behavior—measured with an incentivized dice-roll task—and tested ego-depletion in a large-scale preregistered field experiment that was similar to real-life situations. We hypothesized that treated students would cheat more. The data confirms the hypothesis and provides causal evidence of the ego-depletion effect. Our results provide new insights into the scope conditions of ego-depletion theory, contribute methodological information for future research, and offer practical guidance for educational policy.

scholarly journals Alcohol and Self-Control: A Field Experiment in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 1290-1322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Schilbach
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Self Control

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 sober, thus exhibiting demand for commitment to sobriety. Randomly receiving sobriety incentives significantly reduced daytime drinking while leaving overall drinking unchanged. I find no evidence of higher daytime sobriety significantly changing labor supply, productivity, or earnings. In contrast, increasing sobriety raised savings by 50 percent, an effect that does not appear to be solely explained by changes in income net of alcohol expenditures. (JEL C93, D14, I12, J22, J24, J31, O12)

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