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Information provision over the phone saves lives
Lack of information about COVID-19 and its spread may have contributed to excess mortality at the pandemic’s onset. In April and …
Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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Measuring Utility – An Application to Higher Order Risk
We present the first experimental method to non-parametrically elicit utility functions and associated measures of (higher order) risk …
Sebastian O. Schneider, Marcela Ibanez, Gerhard Riener
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Motivated Reasoning, Information Avoidance, and Default Bias
We investigate whether the presence of a default interacts with the willingness of decision-makers to gather, process and consider …
Katharina Momsen, Sebastian O. Schneider
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Addressing Validity and Generalizability Concerns in Field Experiments
In the context of a real-world recruitment experiment with 3,305 public schools, we systematically analyze the empirical importance of …
Gerhard Riener, Sebastian O. Schneider, Valentin Wagner
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Rerandomization to Improve Covariate Balance by Minimizing the MSE of a Treatment Effect Estimator
We present a new approach to treatment assignment in (field) experiments for the case of one or multiple treatment groups. This …
Sebastian O. Schneider, Martin Schlather
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