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Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial studyIn this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether asking Vietnamese men to reflect on gender equality can reduce their gender bias...
Gender Inequality Male perceptionJournal Article
How the cases you choose affect the answers you get, revisitedExternal validity is a major challenge for experimental research...
Experiments Experimental design Political scienceWorking Paper
Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from an experimental studyReducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and deep-rooted prejudices against women...
Gender Inequality Male perceptionWorking Paper
Protecting unsophisticated applicants in school choice through information disclosureUnsophisticated applicants can be at a disadvantage under manipulable and hence strategically demanding school choice mechanisms...
Education Experimental design Organizational behaviorWorking Paper
Eliciting risk preferences: Firefighting in the fieldHeterogeneity in subject populations often necessitates choosing an elicitation task that is intuitive, easy to explain, and simple to implement...
Experimental design RiskJournal Article
Tiered Housing Allocation with Preannounced Rankings: An Experimental AnalysisWe study in the laboratory a variant of the house allocation with existing tenants problem where subjects are partitioned into tiers with hierarchical privileges, and they know their position in the priority queue before making their decision...
Experimental design HousingJournal Article
Reflections on the Ethics of Social ExperimentationPart of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics
Methodology (Economics) Experimental design Field experimentsWorking Paper
Reflections on the Ethics of Social ExperimentationSocial scientists are increasingly engaging in experimental research projects of importance for public policy in developing areas...
Methodology (Economics) Experimental design Qualitative researchWorking Paper
Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development PolicySuccessful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us understand why people behave and choose as they do...
Agriculture Experimental design MicroeconomicsJournal Article
Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development PolicyPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Agriculture Experimental design MicroeconomicsBlog
What Can Experiments Tell Us About How to Improve Governance?Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Over the past decade, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have become a staple of research in development economics...
Cost effectiveness Experimental design Field experimentsBook Chapter
Evaluating Aid ImpactFrom the book: Development Aid
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy Experimental designWorking Paper
Evaluating Aid ImpactThe ultimate measure of aid effectiveness is how aid affects the lives of poor people in developing countries...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy Experimental designWorking Paper
The Market Place for Ideas: An Analysis of Knowledge Diffusion in Academic JournalsThe thought that the academy might function like a ‘market place for ideas’ has been influential in the economics of science and is increasingly so in the philosophy of science/economic methodology literature...
Econometrics Research (Education, Higher) Experimental design