Placebo reforms

American Economic Review

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1490-1506

  Spiegler, Ran ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84879180214     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.4.1490     Document Type: Review

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