Addressing Participant Inattention in Federal Programs: A Field Experiment with the Conservation Reserve Program
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 99, Heft 4, S. 914-931
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In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 99, Heft 4, S. 914-931
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In: Amber Waves, February 2015
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In: USDA-ERS Economic Research Report No. 98
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In: American economic review, Band 107, Heft 5, S. 462-465
ISSN: 1944-7981
We conducted an experiment marketing microloans to farmers in the USA during Spring 2015 and found a simple direct mail letter increased borrowing from a government program. The subsequent spring, we built on this finding and enriched the design to test for information spillovers. The direct effect result did not replicate in the second year, thus lowering the likelihood that spillovers would be present and detectable. These results add to recent evidence on how (seemingly subtle) differences in context and treatment content affect consumer responses.
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In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 98, Heft 2, S. 468-488
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