We consider a number of notice and take-down regimes for Internet content. These differ in the incentives for removal, the legal framework for compelling action, and the speed at which material is removed. By measuring how quickly various types of content are removed, we determine that the requester’s incentives outweigh all other factors, from the penalties available, to the methods used to ob...

This paper documents firm take-up rates and manipulation around the eligibility thresholds of a 30 percent temporary corporate income tax cut in Vietnam in 2009 and in 2011. The tax cut program was only available for firms with less than certain employment or asset cutoffs. I use regression discontinuity design and difference in differences approach to compare firms right below and above the cu...

We experimentally varied information mailed to 87,000 households in California’s health insurance marketplace study the role of frictions take-up. Reminders about enrollment deadline raised by 1.3 pp (16 percent) this typically low take-up population. Heterogeneous effects personalized subsidy indicate misperceptions program benefits. Consistent with an adverse selection model frictional costs,...

Today in the United States there is a high demand and correspondingly a huge market for dietary supplements. Accordingly, any regulatory policy in the area of dietary supplements has the potential to affect a large portion of the population. About sixty percent of Americans take dietary supplements in one form or another. The results of a recent American Dietetic Association survey indicate tha...

Extended Abstract. Sampling is the process of selecting units (e.g., people, organizations) from a population of interest so that by studying the sample we may fairly generalize our results back to the population from which they were chosen. To draw a sample from the underlying population, a variety of sampling methods can be employed, individually or in combination. Cut-off sampling is a pr...