Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices

Xavier Giné, Jessica Goldberg, Dan Silverman, Dean Yang

NBER Working Paper No. 18065
Issued in May 2012

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Niall Keleher, of Innovations for Poverty Action, was instrumental to the design and implementation of this study. We thank him for his important contributions to this project. We also thank James Andreoni, Stefano DellaVigna, Pascaline Dupas, Yoram Halevy, Vivian Hoffmann, Glenn Harrison, Pam Jakiela, Damon Jones, David I. Levine, Stephan Meier, Ted Miguel, Matthew Rabin, and participants in several seminars for their many helpful comments. We thank Lasse Brune, Jason Kerwin, and Prachi Jain for excellent research assistance. This research was funded by the Gender Action Plan and the Research Committee of the World Bank. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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