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- Engstrom, Per, et al.
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Increasing the Take-Up of the Housing Allowance Among Swedish Pensioners : A Field Experiment
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Using a randomized field experiment in the Swedish pension system, we investigate whether receiving an information letter affects the take-up rate of the housing allowance for pensioners. We also investigate whether the framing of the information letter affects take-up. The results show that simple information letters had a dramatic effect on the application rate and subsequent take-up rate: the baseline application rate in the targeted control population was only 1.4 percent while the corresponding rates in the different treatment groups were between 9.9 and 12.1 percent. The letter that addressed common misconceptions about the benefit caused significantly higher submission and acceptance rates. The letters had a substantial economic effect on the applicants. We estimate that the applicants, induced by the treatment, increased their monthly income by around 10 percent.
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- Engström, Per, 1974-, et al.
(författare)
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Bostadstillägg för pensionärer : ett randomiserat informationsexperiment
- 2018
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska Föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 46:5, s. 29-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Många äldre med låga inkomster ansöker inte om bostadstillägg för pensionärer trots att de kan ha rätt till det. En viktig fråga är därför hur man kan få fler berättigade att ansöka. Vi har tillsammans med Pensionsmyndigheten genomfört ett randomiserat informationsexperiment riktat till populationen av potentiellt berättigade pensionärer. Ungefär var tionde pensionär som fick ett brev (behandlingsgruppen) ansökte om bostadstillägg inom fyra månader jämfört med drygt en av hundra som inte fick ett brev (kontrollgruppen). Andelen avslag i behandlingsgruppen var dock något högre.
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- Engström, Per, 1974-, et al.
(författare)
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Demand effects of consumers' stated and revealed preferences
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. - : Elsevier BV. - 0167-2681 .- 1879-1751. ; 150, s. 43-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Knowledge of how consumers react to different signals is fundamental to understanding how markets work. The modern electronic marketplace has revolutionized the possibilities for consumers to gather detailed information about products and services before purchase. Specifically, a consumer can easily – through a host of online forums and evaluation sites – estimate a product’s quality based on either (i) what other users say about the product (stated preferences) or (ii) how many other users that have bought the product (revealed preferences). In this paper, we compare the causal effects on demand from these two signals based on data from the biggest marketplace for Android apps, Google play. This data consists of daily information, for 42 consecutive days, of more than 500,000 apps from the US version of Google play. Our main result is that consumers are much more responsive to other consumers’ revealed preferences, compared to others’ stated preferences. A 10 percentile increase in displayed average rating only increases downloads by about 3%, while a 10 percentile increase in displayed number of downloads increases downloads by about 25%.
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