Measuring Spillover Effects from an Entrepreneurship Programme: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge ◽  
Armando José Garcia Pires
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Spillover Effects

Do Beautiful Stores improve Product Evaluation?

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia B. MÜNSTER ◽  
Tore KRISTENSEN ◽  
Gorm GABRIELSEN
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Product Evaluation ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Improve Product ◽  
Fashion Products ◽  
Store Design ◽  
Conscious Attention ◽  
Product Rating ◽  
Product Preference

Retail designers often emphasize the importance of creating stores that consumers will find attractive. This paper challenges that commonly held view, presenting empirical results from a field experiment showing that a positive rating of a store interior does not affect the product rating to the degree expected. This paper proposes a method for measuring spillover effects, which ordinarily take place without conscious attention. The method was applied in an experiment where 50 shoppers were asked to rate six fashion products in three differently designed stores. Respondents were asked to rate stores and products from within the stores. Any discrepancy between the in-store ratings can be interpreted as the influence of the store design. Results indicate measurable spillover effects from store design to product preference. Surprisingly, however, only one of the three stores showed a significant correlation between the respondents’ highest product rating and store preference.

Making the Most of School Vacation: A Field Experiment of Small Group Math Instruction

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-331
Author(s):  
Beth E. Schueler
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
English Language ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
Math Instruction ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
School Suspensions ◽  
Out Of School

Catching students up who have fallen behind academically is a key challenge for educators, and can be difficult to do in a cost-effective manner. This field experiment examines the causal effect of a program designed to provide struggling sixth and seventh graders with math instruction delivered in small groups of roughly ten students by select teachers over weeklong vacation breaks. The program was implemented in a set of low-performing Massachusetts middle schools undergoing turnaround reforms. Attendance at these “Vacation Academies” increased the probability that students scored proficient or higher on Common Core–aligned math exams by 10 percentage points and reduced students’ exposure to exclusionary discipline by decreasing out-of-school suspensions post-Academy. I find suggestive evidence of positive spillover effects on English Language Arts achievement and end-of-course grades in math and reading. Participants assigned to a single primary teacher for the entire week saw larger reductions in out-of-school suspensions than did students who rotated through teachers specializing in particular lessons. However, teacher specialization was associated with greater test score gains, suggesting a trade-off in outcomes depending on program design. Overall, the program's low cost and lack of a highly competitive teacher selection process make it a scalable approach to individualizing instruction.

Information Spillovers: Another Look at Experimental Estimates of Legislator Responsiveness

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Coppock
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Quarterly Journal ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Information Spillovers ◽  
Experimental Intervention ◽  
Indirect Treatment ◽  
Voting Decisions ◽  
Share Information

AbstractA field experiment carried out by Butler and Nickerson (Butler, D. M., and Nickerson, D. W. (2011). Can learning constituency opinion affect how legislators vote? Results from a field experiment. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 6, 55–83) shows that New Mexico legislators changed their voting decisions upon receiving reports of their constituents’ preferences. The analysis of the experiment did not account for the possibility that legislators may share information, potentially resulting in spillover effects. Working within the analytic framework proposed by Bowers et al. (2013), I find evidence of spillovers, and present estimates of direct and indirect treatment effects. The total causal effect of the experimental intervention appears to be twice as large as reported originally.

Spillover Effects of Girls’ Empowerment on Brothers’ Competitiveness: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Buehren ◽  
Markus Goldstein ◽  
Kenneth Leonard ◽  
Joao Montalvao ◽  
Kathryn Vasilaky
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Spillover Effects

scholarly journals Yes, You Can! Effects of Transparent Admission Standards on High School Track Choice: A Randomized Field Experiment

Social Forces ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Keller ◽  
Károly Takács ◽  
Felix Elwert
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Academic Track ◽  
Admission Standards

Abstract High school track choice determines college access in many countries. We hypothesize that some qualified students avoid the college-bound track in high school simply because they overestimate admission requirements. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a randomized field experiment that communicated the admission standards of local secondary schools on the academic track to students in Hungary before the application deadline. We targeted the subset of students (“seeds”) who occupied the most central position in the classroom-social networks, aiming to detect both direct effects on the track choice of targeted seeds and spillover effects on their untreated peers. We found neither a direct effect nor a spillover effect on students’ applications or admissions on average. Further analyses, however, revealed theoretically plausible heterogeneity in the direct causal effect of the intervention on the track choice of targeted seeds. Providing information about admission standards increased applications and admissions to secondary schools on the academic track among seeds who had a pre-existing interest in the academic track but were unsure of their chances of admission. This demonstrates that publicizing admissions standards can set students on a more ambitious educational trajectory. We discuss the implications for theory and policy.

Reduced form evidence on belief updating under asymmetric information—consumers’ response to wine expert opinions

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1668-1696
Author(s):  
Céline Bonnet ◽  
James Hilger ◽  
Sofia B Villas-Boas
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Average Effect ◽  
Belief Updating ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Information Consumers ◽  
Heterogeneous Effect

Abstract We estimate the effect of quality labels on purchases through a retail field experiment. Utilising product-level panel scanner and product characteristic data for both labelled and unlabelled wines we estimate the average and heterogeneous effect on purchases. Consistent with earlier work, we find an average effect that is positively correlated with scores. We advance the consumer belief and product information literature on two fronts. First, higher scores matter more for lower priced products. Second, spillover effects impact sales of untreated wines; these effects can be positive or negative and are impacted by the average score and label converge within brand.

scholarly journals The Spillover Effects of Monitoring: A Field Experiment

2015 ◽  
pp. 150313071440008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michèle Belot ◽  
Marina Schröder
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Spillover Effects

scholarly journals Incentives and Unintended Consequences: Spillover Effects in Food Choice

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-95
Author(s):  
Manuela Angelucci ◽  
Silvia Prina ◽  
Heather Royer ◽  
Anya Samek
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Positive Spillover ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Impacts ◽  
Negative Spillover

Little is known about how peers influence the impact of incentives. We study how peers’ actions and incentives can lead to peer spillover effects. Using a field experiment on snack choice in the school lunchroom (choice of grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of peers incentivized, and whether or not it can be observed that peers’ choices are incentivized. We show that, while peers’ actions of picking grapes have a positive spillover effect on children’s take-up of grapes, seeing that peers are incentivized to pick grapes has a negative spillover effect on take-up. When incentivized choices are public, incentivizing all children to pick grapes, relative to incentivizing none, has no statistically significant effect on take-up, as the negative spillover offsets the positive impacts of incentives. (JEL C93, D12, I21, J13)

Research Insights: Can Salient Penalties and Enforcement on Tax Bills Increase Compliance Across Taxes?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea López-Luzuriaga ◽  
Carlos Scartascini,
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Sales Tax ◽  
Positive Spillover

An analytical model and a field experiment in Argentina proved that salient enforcement messages on one type of tax could increase compliance with another tax. Salient messages of penalties and enforcement for the property tax had positive spillover effects on declaration of the gross sales tax, with taxpayers in the treatment group increasing their reported tax by 2 percent. Taxpayers appear to assume that higher enforcement of one tax implies higher enforcement for others, thereby increasing their compliance across taxes.

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