Psychological Frictions and the Incomplete Take-Up of Social Benefits: Evidence from an IRS Field Experiment

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  2015

• Venue

  The American Economic Review

• Publication date

  2015-11-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1257/AER.20121493
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