The role of information and social interactions in retirement plan decisions: Evidence from a randomized experiment

By Esther Duflo, Emmanuel Saez. 2003

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The Econometrics of Randomized Experiments (2016, background): “An example of the second is Duflo and Saez (2003) where individuals in possibly endogenously formed groups are randomly assigned to treatments, with the treatments clustered at the group level.”
Financial Education and Counseling — Still Holding Promise (2010, background): “The study by Duflo and Saez (2003) was notable for using a randomized experimental design and for incorporating the role of social norms and networks into the study of financial behavior.”
Identifying Social Interactions Through Conditional Variance Restrictions (2008, methodology): “5Recent examples of economics research using the linear-in-means model include Sacerdote (2001), Duflo and Saez (2003), and Angrist and Lang (2004).”
Financial Literacy and the Financial Crisis (2012, positive): “Several other studies have documented that individuals learn about financial matters from peers (Duflo and Saez, 2003 Hong, Kubik, and Stein, 2004; and Brown, Ivkovic, Smith, and Weisbenner, 2008).”
Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction (2012, neutral): “, their prior is w ∼ N(w, 1/q)).(12) In addition, individuals who receive the information treatment observe a noisy signal about their future wage from their peers’ average wage m.”
An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications (2011, neutral): “For example, see Duflo and Saez (2003).”
Social Learning and Incentives for Experimentation and Communication (2018, background): “…choices (Bobonis and Finan, 2009; Carrell and Hoekstra, 2010; De Giorgi et al., 2010; Duflo et al., 2011; Garlick, 2012), financial decisions (Duflo and Saez, 2003; Banerjee et al., 2013; Burzstyn et al., 2014; Beshears et al., 2015), job information (Magruder, 2010; Beaman, 2012), health…”
The Impact of Financial Literacy Education on Subsequent Financial Behavior (2009, background): “Duflo and Saez (2003) reported that retirement seminars had a positive effect on participation in retirement plans, but the increase in contributions was negligible. Lusardi and Mitchell (2007) found retirement seminars had a positive wealth effect; however, this effect was found mainly for those wi”
Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (2012, background): “For example, Duflo and Saez (2003) and Chetty and Saez (2009) provided subjects with information on retirement plans and the tax code, respectively, while Jensen’s (2010) study offered statistics on returns to schooling for teenagers, and Card et al. (2010) gave a group of employees access to…”
Social Networks and Causal Inference (2013, background): “When samples from several different social networks are available, randomized trials have been designed that enable causal inferences (Sacerdote 2001; Duflo and Saez 2003; Camargo et al. 2010; An 2011b).”
Social Interaction and Sickness Absence (2008, background): “Bokenblom and Ekblad (2007) also found that inter-individual influences on sickness absence in publicsector workplaces in a Swedish city occurred mainly within gender and age groups.”