scholarly journals Encouraging the resumption of economic activity after COVID-19: Evidence from a large scale field experiment in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Palacios ◽  
Yichun Fan ◽  
Erez Yoeli ◽  
Jianghao Wang ◽  
Yuchen Chai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Trajectory Data ◽  
Boomerang Effect ◽  
Gps Trajectory Data ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
Placebo Intervention

As the COVID-19 pandemic comes to an end, governments find themselves facing a new challenge: motivating citizens to resume economic activity. What is an effective way to do so? We investigate this question using a field experiment in the city of Zhengzhou, China immediately following the end of the city's COVID-19 lockdown. Using self-reports and GPS trajectory data from participants' phones, we assessed the effect of providing information about the proportion of participants' neighbors who have resumed economic activity. We find that informing individuals about their neighbors' plans to visit restaurants increases the fraction of participants visiting restaurants by 12 percentage points (37%), amongst those participants who underestimated the proportion of neighbors who resumed economic activity. Those who overestimated did not respond by reducing restaurant attendance, so the intervention yielded no `boomerang' effect. We explore moderators, risk perceptions, and a placebo intervention for parks. All of these analyses suggest our intervention worked by reducing the perceived risk of going to restaurants.

scholarly journals The Testing Multiplier: Fear vs Containment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Furno
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Risk Of Infection ◽  
Epidemic Disease ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Additional Testing

AbstractThis paper studies the economic effects of testing during the outbreak of a novel epidemic disease. I propose a model where testing permits isolation of the infected and provides agents with information about the prevalence and lethality of the disease. Additional testing reduces the perceived lethality of the disease, but might increase the perceived risk of infection. As a result, more testing could increase the perceived risk of dying from the disease - i.e. “stoke fear” - and cause a fall in economic activity, despite improving health outcomes. Two main insights emerge. First, increased testing is beneficial to the economy and pays for itself if performed at a sufficiently large scale, but not necessarily otherwise. Second, heterogeneous risk perceptions across age-groups can have important aggregate consequences. For a SARS-CoV-2 calibration of the model, heterogeneous risk perceptions across young and old individuals mitigate GDP losses by 50% and reduce the death toll by 30% relative to a scenario in which all individuals have the same perceptions of risk.

Biodata response elaboration: A large-scale field experiment

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Levashina ◽  
Frederick P. Morgeson ◽  
Michael A. Campion
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field

scholarly journals Ethnic Discrimination in the Dutch Labor Market: Differences Between Ethnic Minority Groups and the Role of Personal Information About Job Applicants—Evidence from a Field Experiment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lex Thijssen ◽  
Marcel Coenders ◽  
Bram Lancee
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Large Scale Field

AbstractIn this study, we present the results of a large-scale field experiment on ethnic discrimination in the Dutch labor market. We sent fictitious job applications (N = 4211) to vacancies for jobs in ten different occupations in the Netherlands. By examining 35 different ethnic minority groups, we detect considerable differences in discrimination rates, predominantly between Western and non-Western minorities. Furthermore, we find little systematic variation in discrimination patterns with regard to gender, regions, and occupations, pointing to the existence of an ethnic hierarchy that is widely shared among employers. Finally, we do not find empirical support for the hypothesis that adding personal information in job applications reduces discrimination.

scholarly journals Adverse Selection into Competition: Evidence from a Large-scale Field Experiment in Tanzania

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingvild Almås ◽  
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge ◽  
Kjetil Bjorvatn ◽  
Vincent Somville ◽  
Bertil Tungodden
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Adverse Selection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field

scholarly journals Recommending teams promotes prosocial lending in online microfinance

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (52) ◽  
pp. 14944-14948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ai ◽  
Roy Chen ◽  
Yan Chen ◽  
Qiaozhu Mei ◽  
Webb Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Behavioral Mechanism ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
The Impact

This paper reports the results of a large-scale field experiment designed to test the hypothesis that group membership can increase participation and prosocial lending for an online crowdlending community, Kiva. The experiment uses variations on a simple email manipulation to encourage Kiva members to join a lending team, testing which types of team recommendation emails are most likely to get members to join teams as well as the subsequent impact on lending. We find that emails do increase the likelihood that a lender joins a team, and that joining a team increases lending in a short window (1 wk) following our intervention. The impact on lending is large relative to median lender lifetime loans. We also find that lenders are more likely to join teams recommended based on location similarity rather than team status. Our results suggest team recommendation can be an effective behavioral mechanism to increase prosocial lending.

scholarly journals Goal Setting, Academic Reminders, and College Success: A Large-Scale Field Experiment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Dobronyi ◽  
Philip Oreopoulos ◽  
Uros Petronijevic
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
College Success ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field
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