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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
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Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
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Sebastian O. Schneider
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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
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Marcela Ibanez
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Gerhard Riener
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Information provision over the phone saves lives @ CSAE Conference 2022
On Wednesday, March 16, I’ll be presenting our paper “Information provision over the phone saves lives: A randomized controlled trial to contain COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh at the pandemic’s onset” at University Oxford’s CSAE conference 2022.
Mar 16, 2022 12:00 PM
Shyamal Chowdhury
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Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
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Sebastian O. Schneider
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Matthias Sutter
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Session Summary Thread on Twitter
Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior
We present and use a novel method to elicit and measure the intensities of higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in …
Sebastian O. Schneider
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Matthias Sutter
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Summary Thread on Twitter
(10-minutes) Presentation Video
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
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Sebastian O. Schneider
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Valentin Wagner
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Higher Order Risk Preferences: Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior - Talk @ iHEA 2021
Please find the corresponding working paper here! Thanks to Arthur Attema for organizing the session, and to Stefan Lipann and Daniel Wiesen for chairing the session and discussing the presentations.
Jul 14, 2021
Sebastian O. Schneider
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Matthias Sutter
Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children
We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a …
Kai Barron
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Heike Harmgart
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Steffen Huck
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Sebastian O. Schneider
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Matthias Sutter
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DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01090
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
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Martin Schlather
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Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Loss Aversion – An Empirical Test
This paper empirically examines the behavioral precautionary saving hypothesis by Kőszegi and Rabin (2009) stating that uncertainty …
Marcela Ibanez
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Sebastian O. Schneider
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Nudging or Paying? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Measures to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Feb 12, 2021 — Feb 9, 2020
Shyamal Chowdhury
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Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
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Sebastian O. Schneider
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Matthias Sutter
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