Who’s Afraid of Policy Experiments?
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- Dur, Robert & Non, Arjan & Prottung, Paul & Ricci, Benedetta, 2023. "Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?," OSF Preprints yshkt, Center for Open Science.
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Keywords
policy experiments; randomized controlled trials; voters; politicians; public policy; survey experiment; conformism.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2023-05-29 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-DES-2023-05-29 (Economic Design)
- NEP-EUR-2023-05-29 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-EXP-2023-05-29 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HPE-2023-05-29 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-POL-2023-05-29 (Positive Political Economics)
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