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A controlled field experiment on corruption

Armantier, Olivier; Boly, Amadou - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 8, pp. 1072-1082

This paper reports on a controlled field experiment on corruption designed to address two important issues: the … experimenter's scrutiny and the unobservability of corruption. In the experiment, a grader is offered a bribe along with a demand … ambiguous: it lowers the bribe's acceptance, but it fosters reciprocation. Monitoring and punishment can deter corruption, but …

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Sleep : Educational Impact and Habit Formation

Giuntella, Osea; Saccardo, Silvia; Sadoff, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

There is growing evidence on the importance of sleep for productivity, but little is known about the impact of interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both sleep and academic performance. Motivated by...

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Chapter 10. Lab in the Field : Measuring Preferences in the Wild

Gneezy, U.; Imas, A. - 2017

In this chapter, we discuss the “lab-in-the-field” methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been...

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Using Machine Learning for Efficient Flexible Regression Adjustment in Economic Experiments

List, John A.; Muir, Ian; Sun, Gregory K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This study investigates how to use regression adjustment to reduce variance in experimental data. We show that the estimators recommended in the literature satisfy an orthogonality property with respect to the parameters of the adjustment. This observation greatly simplifies the derivation of...

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Priors rule : when do malfeasance revelations help or hurt incumbent parties?

Arias, Eric; Larreguy, Horacio; Marshall, John; … - In: Journal of the European Economic Association : JEEA 20 (2022) 4, pp. 1433-1477

Effective policy-making requires that voters avoid electing malfeasant politicians. However, informing voters of incumbent malfeasance in corrupt contexts may not reduce incumbent support. As our simple learning model shows, electoral sanctioning is limited where voters already believed...

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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery

Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012

corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …

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Can mass fundraising harm your core business? : a field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2019

Some companies engage in mass fundraising - where thousands of recipients are asked to make small donations - in addition to their core business. Via a corpo-rate social responsibility (CSR) channel this may increase sales. However, recent research uncovered significant "ask avoidance" which, if...

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Hiring discrimination based on national origin and religious closeness : results from a field experiment in the Paris area

Pierné, Guillaume - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

This study uses the findings of a test carried out by correspondence in order to assess separately the potential hiring effects of North African origin and Muslim or Catholic religious affiliation in the French real estate sector. We constructed six jobseeker profiles, each representing a...

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Field experimental evidence on gender discrimination in hiring : biased as Heckman and Siegelman predicted?

Baert, Stijn - 2015

Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However, these studies suffer from one fundamental methodological problem, as formulated by Heckman and Siegelman (The Urban Institute audit studies: Their methods and findings. In M. Fix,...

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Social comparison in the workplace : evidence from a field experiment

Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2011

We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance-independent hourly wage....

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