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mechanism_design
3 findings
EducationStrategic Hedging Mechanism Immunity in First-Year Choice PlansEstimated preference parameters for school academic test scores were statistically indistinguishable between families receiving positive versus negative shocks to default home-school quality (joint p-values ranging from 0.491 to 0.896 across subgroups), demonstrating that strategic hedging did not significantly bias estimated parental preference parameters during initial plan rollout.Observational StudyDevelopmentStrategic Misreporting in High-Stakes Peer EvaluationRanking report accuracy dropped by 30% to 34% when financial resources and grant allocations were at stake due to nepotism and peer favoritism.RCTDevelopmentTruthfulness Compensation in Mechanism DesignSmall monetary payments for accuracy doubled reporting accuracy under no-stakes conditions and improved reporting accuracy by over 100% under high-stakes conditions at an added cost of only INR 40 (US$0.70) per loan.RCT