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Abstract
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Digital technologies such as smartphones and social media consume a large and growing share of leisure time. While these technologies provide obvious benefits, it is often argued that they can be addictive and harmful. We lay out a model of digital addiction and estimate its parameters using a randomized experiment involving about 2000 smartphone users. We also measure treatment effects of reduced smartphone use on survey measures of smartphone addiction and subjective well-being. This document is a pre-analysis plan for the experiment.
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See the pre-analysis plan.
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Last Published
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May 04, 2020 09:16 PM
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May 05, 2020 12:38 PM
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Additional Keyword(s)
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Behavioral welfare analysis, consumer surplus from digital technologies, demand for commitment, habit formation, self-control, naivete, temptation, randomized field experiments.
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