Schultracking basiert auf der frühen Aufteilung von Lernenden nach Leistung, doch seine Wirkung auf Kompetenzentwicklung ist empirisch unklar. Wir zeigen, dass ein breiterer Zugang zum Gymnasium…
Subventionen für nachhaltige Produkte sind ein weit verbreitetes umweltpolitisches Instrument. Allerdings sind sie häufig ineffizient, da sie nach dem Gießkannenprinzip vergeben werden und somit auch…
Educational tracking—separating students into tracks or schools by ability — is commonplace, but access and preferences for top programs often depend on socioeconomic status (SES), reinforcing inequality. We…
We study the problem of distributing subsidies in a market that includes both marginal individuals in need of assistance and infra-marginal individuals who would purchase the subsidized product without…
We study mechanism design with flexible but costly information acquisition. There is a principal and four or more agents, sharing a common prior over a set of payoff-relevant states. The principal proposes a…
We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the U.S. using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ fictitious LinkedIn profiles. In the first stage, we vary race via…
Rapid technological developments in online markets fundamentally change the relationship between consumers and sellers. Online platforms can easily gather data about consumers’ search behavior, allowing for…
We study how framing interplays with information design. Whereas Sender conceives all contingencies separately, Receiver cannot initially distinguish among some of them, i.e., has a coarse frame. To influence…