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Sally Sadoff
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 45
Citations - 1756
Sally Sadoff is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Incentive & Population. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 43 publications receiving 1287 citations. Previous affiliations of Sally Sadoff include University of Chicago.
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Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19.
TL;DR: It is suggested that disruption to physical activity is a leading risk factor for depression during the pandemic and restoration of those habits-either naturally or through policy intervention-has limited impact on restoring mental well-being.
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The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance
TL;DR: In this article, a series of field experiments involving thousands of primary and secondary school students was conducted, and the authors demonstrate the power of behavioral economics to increase student ability, teacher value added, school quality, and achievement gap.
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So you want to run an experiment, now what? Some simple rules of thumb for optimal experimental design
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide several simple rules of thumb that researchers can apply to improve the efficiency of their experimental designs and buttress these points by including empirical examples from the literature.
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Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment
Roland G. Fryer,Steven D. Levitt,Steven D. Levitt,Steven D. Levitt,John A. List,John A. List,John A. List,Sally Sadoff +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that exploiting the power of loss aversion (teachers are paid in advance and asked to give back the money if their students do not improve sufficiently) increases math test scores between 0.201 and 0.398 (0.129) standard deviations.
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Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players
TL;DR: In the centipede game as discussed by the authors, the game is a two-player, finite-move game in which the subjects alternate choosing whether to end the game or to pass to the other player.