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Exploring Encouragement, Treatment, and Spillover Effects Using Principal Stratification, With Application to a Field Experiment on Teens’ Museum Attendance

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posted on 2021-09-29, 15:43 authored by Laura Forastiere, Patrizia Lattarulo, Marco Mariani, Fabrizia Mealli, Laura Razzolini

This article revisits results from a field experiment, conducted in Florence, Italy, to study the effects of incentives provided to high school teens to motivate them to visit art museums. In the experiment, different classes of students were randomized to three types of encouragement and were offered a free visit to a main museum in the city. Using the principal stratification framework, the article explores causal pathways that may lead students to increase future visits, as induced by the encouragement received, or by the individual experience of the proposed free museum visit, or by the spillover of classmates’ experience. We do so by estimating and interpreting the causal effects of the three forms of encouragement within the principal strata defined by compliance behaviors. Bayesian inferential methods are used to derive the posterior distributions of weakly identified causal parameters.

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Fabrizia Mealli acknowledges the financial support provided by the “Dipartimenti Eccellenti 2018–2022” funds of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research

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