How to run surveys: A guide to creating your own identifying variation and revealing the invisible

S Stantcheva - Annual Review of Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as
perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical …

Misperceptions about others

L Bursztyn, DY Yang - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Perceptions about others play an important role in shaping people's attitudes and behaviors,
as well as social norms more broadly. This review presents a meta-analysis of the recent …

Designing information provision experiments

I Haaland, C Roth, J Wohlfart - Journal of economic literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

How do expectations about the macroeconomy affect personal expectations and behavior?

C Roth, J Wohlfart - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Using a representative online panel from the United States, we examine how individuals'
macroeconomic expectations causally affect their personal economic prospects and their …

How much does your boss make? The effects of salary comparisons

Z Cullen, R Perez-Truglia - Journal of Political Economy, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
The vast majority of the pay inequality in organizations comes from differences in pay
between employees and their bosses. But are employees aware of these pay disparities …

The effects of income transparency on well-being: Evidence from a natural experiment

R Perez-Truglia - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
In 2001, Norwegian tax records became easily accessible online, allowing everyone in the
country to observe the incomes of everyone else. According to the income comparisons …

Aspirations and economic behavior

G Genicot, D Ray - Annual Review of Economics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the literature on aspirations in economics, with a particular focus on
socially determined aspirations. The core theory builds on two fundamental principles:(a) …

When product markets become collective traps: The case of social media

L Bursztyn, BR Handel, R Jimenez, C Roth - 2023 - nber.org
Individuals might experience negative utility from not consuming a popular product. For
example, being inactive on social media can lead to social exclusion or not owning luxury …

Tax audits as scarecrows: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment

M Bergolo, R Ceni, G Cruces, M Giaccobasso… - American Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
The canonical model of Allingham and Sandmo (1972) predicts that firms evade taxes by
optimally trading off between the costs and benefits of evasion. However, there is no direct …

The economics of content moderation: Theory and experimental evidence from hate speech on Twitter

R Jiménez-Durán - George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from
Hate Speech on Twitter Rafael Jimenez-Duran University of Chicago November 2022 New …