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Papers

Behavioral Nudges Prevent Student Dropouts in the Pandemic

with J. Christen

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Behavioral Nudges Prevent Student Dropouts in the Pandemic

with J. Christen

Background: Student dropouts are a major concern in developing countries; even before the pandemic, one out of three Brazilian students drop...

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Reopening Schools in the Pandemic Did Not Increase Covid-19 Incidence and Mortality in Brazil

with C. Dória, J. Cossi and O. Neto

Submitted

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Reopening Schools in the Pandemic Did Not Increase Covid-19 Incidence and Mortality in Brazil

with C. Dória, J. Cossi and O. Neto

School closures due to Covid-19 have left 1.6 billion students around the world without in-person classes for a prolonged period of time. To...

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Harming to Signal: Child Marriage vs. Public Donations in Malawi

with S. Hänni

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Harming to Signal: Child Marriage vs. Public Donations in Malawi

with S. Hänni

In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married before they reach that...

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Arm-Wrestling in the Classroom: The Non-Monotonic Effects of Monitoring Teachers

with S. Wolf

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Arm-Wrestling in the Classroom: The Non-Monotonic Effects of Monitoring Teachers

with S. Wolf

Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should ameliorate

those problems, mob...

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Are the Effects of Informational Interventions Driven by Salience?

with E. Bettinger, N. Cunha and R. Madeira

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Are the Effects of Informational Interventions Driven by Salience?

with E. Bettinger, N. Cunha and R. Madeira

Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subject...

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Harming to Signal

Parents in Malawi are compelled to marry off their under-age daughters in villages where child marriage is prevalent out of social image concerns. Alternative signals of social preferences can disrupt that signaling equilibrium and affect child marriage, teenage pregnancies and school dropouts.

Information vs. Salience

Informational interventions often have enormous impacts on decision-making. Is it because those interventions make beliefs more accurate with respect to the ground truth, or because they reallocate attention towards the dimension they target -- perhaps even leading subjects to acquire decision-relevant information themselves? 

Cognitive Droughts

Financial worries brought about by the threat of a drought capture poor farmers' attention, memory and impulse control in the Brazilian Northeast.  

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