优化多重行动治疗分配：促进移民入籍的两阶段实地实验

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Applied Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI:10.1002/jae.3092

Achim Ahrens, Alessandra Stampi-Bombelli, Selina Kurer, Dominik Hangartner

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摘要

摘要研究强调了入籍在促进移民融入社会经济方面的作用，但申请率仍然很低。我们估算了瑞士苏黎世鼓励符合条件的新移民入籍的政策规则。政策规则根据观察到的每个人的特征，从三封处理信件中为其分配一封。我们对 1717 名移民中的二分之一采用了该政策规则，而对另一半随机发送了处理信件。尽管只有适度的治疗效果异质性，但与向每个人分配相同的信件相比，政策树对申请率的提高更大，尽管并不显著。

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Optimal multi-action treatment allocation: A two-phase field experiment to boost immigrant naturalization

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Optimal multi-action treatment allocation: A two-phase field experiment to boost immigrant naturalization

Research underscores the role of naturalization in enhancing immigrants' socio-economic integration, yet application rates remain low. We estimate a policy rule for a letter-based information campaign encouraging newly eligible immigrants in Zurich, Switzerland, to naturalize. The policy rule assigns one out of three treatment letters to each individual, based on their observed characteristics. We field the policy rule to one-half of 1717 immigrants, while sending random treatment letters to the other half. Despite only moderate treatment effect heterogeneity, the policy tree yields a larger, albeit insignificant, increase in application rates compared with assigning the same letter to everyone.

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Journal of Applied Econometrics Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Econometrics is an international journal published bi-monthly, plus 1 additional issue (total 7 issues). It aims to publish articles of high quality dealing with the application of existing as well as new econometric techniques to a wide variety of problems in economics and related subjects, covering topics in measurement, estimation, testing, forecasting, and policy analysis. The emphasis is on the careful and rigorous application of econometric techniques and the appropriate interpretation of the results. The economic content of the articles is stressed. A special feature of the Journal is its emphasis on the replicability of results by other researchers. To achieve this aim, authors are expected to make available a complete set of the data used as well as any specialised computer programs employed through a readily accessible medium, preferably in a machine-readable form. The use of microcomputers in applied research and transferability of data is emphasised. The Journal also features occasional sections of short papers re-evaluating previously published papers. The intention of the Journal of Applied Econometrics is to provide an outlet for innovative, quantitative research in economics which cuts across areas of specialisation, involves transferable techniques, and is easily replicable by other researchers. Contributions that introduce statistical methods that are applicable to a variety of economic problems are actively encouraged. The Journal also aims to publish review and survey articles that make recent developments in the field of theoretical and applied econometrics more readily accessible to applied economists in general.