scholarly journals Information Provision, Incentives, and Attention: A Field Experiment on Facilitating and Influencing Managers' Decisions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Manthei ◽  
Dirk Sliwka ◽  
Timo Vogelsang
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Information Provision

Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas L. Bottan ◽  
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Revealed Preference ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Relative Income ◽  
Choice Data ◽  
Location Choices ◽  
Income Distributions ◽  
Data Survey

Do individuals care about their relative income? While this is a long-standing hypothesis, revealed-preference evidence remains elusive. We provide a unique test by studying residential choices: individuals often must choose between places with different income distributions, and as a result they “choose” their relative income. We conducted a field experiment with 1,080 senior medical students who participated in the National Resident Matching Program. We estimate their preferences by combining choice data, survey data on perceptions and information-provision experiments. The evidence suggests that individuals care about their relative income and that these preferences differ across single and non-single individuals.

scholarly journals Information provision and energy consumption: Evidence from a field experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 403-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erdal Aydin ◽  
Dirk Brounen ◽  
Nils Kok
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Information Provision

scholarly journals Does Simple Information Provision Lead to More Diverse Classrooms? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Undergraduate Economics

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 110-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Bayer ◽  
Syon P. Bhanot ◽  
Fernando Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Base Rate ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Diverse Classrooms ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Undergraduate Economics ◽  
Economics Courses

This paper reports the results of a field experiment involving 2,710 students across nine US colleges, in which faculty provided incoming women and URM students with information about economics. We randomly assign students to one of three conditions: a control (no email messaging), a Welcome treatment (two emails encouraging students to consider enrolling in economics courses), and a Welcome+Info treatment (which added information showcasing the diversity of research and researchers within economics). The Welcome+Info treatment increases the likelihood of completing an economics course in the first semester of college by 3.0 percentage points, nearly 20 percent of the base rate.

What Do I Need to Vote? Bureaucratic Discretion and Discrimination by Local Election Officials

2014 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARIEL R. WHITE ◽  
NOAH L. NATHAN ◽  
JULIE K. FALLER
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Differential Information ◽  
Bureaucratic Discretion ◽  
Local Election ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Voter Id

Do street-level bureaucrats discriminate in the services they provide to constituents? We use a field experiment to measure differential information provision about voting by local election administrators in the United States. We contact over 7,000 election officials in 48 states who are responsible for providing information to voters and implementing voter ID laws. We find that officials provide different information to potential voters of different putative ethnicities. Emails sent from Latino aliases are significantly less likely to receive any response from local election officials than non-Latino white aliases and receive responses of lower quality. This raises concerns about the effect of voter ID laws on access to the franchise and about bias in the provision of services by local bureaucrats more generally.

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