Can Business Owners Form Accurate Counterfactuals? Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs about Their Outcomes in the Alternat
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Keywords
Counterfactual elicitation; Subjective expectations; Randomized experiment; Business growth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- C80 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - General
- C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2016-05-21 (Business Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2016-05-21 (Development)
- NEP-EXP-2016-05-21 (Experimental Economics)
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