Active choice framing and intergenerational education benefits: evidence from the field

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Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations:	Castleman, Benjamin L. (Author), Murphy, Francis X. (Author), Patterson, Richard W. (Author), Skimmyhorn, William L. (Author)
Other Authors:	Murphy, Francis X. [Author] • Patterson, Richard W. [Author] • Skimmyhorn, William L. [Author]
Type of Resource:	E-Book
Language:	English
published:	Bonn, Germany IZA - Institute of Labor Economics August 2019
Series:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit: Discussion paper series ; no. 12523
Subjects:	active choice GI Bill randomized controlled trial Graue Literatur
Source:	Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen

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Summary:	The Post-9/11 GI Bill allows service members to transfer generous education benefits to a dependent. We run a large-scale experiment to test whether active choice framing impacts US Army service members' decision to transfer benefits. Individuals who received email messages framing GI Bill use as an active choice between own use and transfer to a family member are more likely to pursue information about the benefit than individuals receiving outreach that does not frame the decision as an active choice. While we find no overall effect of framing on transfer, active choice increases transfer among service members with graduate degrees.
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 37 Seiten); Illustrationen