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#488 Erik Kimbrough: Norms, Institutions, Impersonal Exchange, Specialization, and Organ Donation

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The Effect of Culture on Treatment Effects

The rule following experiments that I described earlier we started with those in the Netherlands. We've now run related experiments in five other countries and so we have some cultural variation although in each case it was usually with college students in those countries. It's more complicated at least to argue that culture is going to change the sign of a treatment effect for it to shift behavior in the opposite direction seems that you know you have to be making a much more complicated argument about the effect of culture in that case. So I'm less worried about those in context where we estimate treatment effects.

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