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Preferences, Intentions, and Expectations : A Large-Scale Experiment With a Representative Subject Pool
van soest, arthur; Bellemare, C.; Kroger, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007
We specify and estimate an econometric model which separately identifies distributional preferences and the effects of perceived intentions on responder behavior in the ultimatum game. We allow the effects of perceived intentions to depend, among other things, on the subjective probabilities...
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Time as a Medium of Reward in Three Social Preference Experiments
Noussair, Charles; Stoop, J.T.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: We report results from three well-known experimental paradigms, where we use time, rather than money, as the salient component of subjects’ incentives. The three experiments, commonly employed to study social preferences, are the dictator game, the ultimatum game and the trust game....
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Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?
Dahl, Gordon B.; DellaVigna, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to … 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We find that violent crime decreases on days with larger theater audiences … the audience for violent movies reduces violent crime by 1.1 to 1.3 percent. After exposure to the movie, between 12AM and …
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Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments
Levitt, Steven; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The "Hawthorne effect," a concept familiar to all students of social science, has had a profound influence both on the direction and design of research over the past 75 years. The Hawthorne effect is named after a landmark set of studies conducted at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s. The first...
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The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations
list, john; Hossain, Tanjim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Recent discoveries in behavioral economics have led to important new insights concerning what can happen in markets. Such gains in knowledge have come primarily via laboratory experiments--a missing piece of the puzzle in many cases is parallel evidence drawn from naturally-occurring field...
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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics
list, john; Al-Ubaydli, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...
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Promoting Rule Compliance in Daily-Life: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in the Public Libraries of Barcelona
Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
We study how to promote compliance with rules in every day situations. Having access to unique data on the universe of users of all public libraries in Barcelona, we test the effect of sending email messages with different contents. We find that users return their items earlier if asked to do...
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Let's Talk: How Communication Affects Contract Design
Brandts, Jordi; Charness, Gary; Ellman, Matthew - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
We study experimentally how the ability to communicate affects the frequency and effectiveness of flexible and inflexible contracts in a bilateral trade context where sellers can adjust trade quality after observing a post-contractual cost shock and a discretionary buyer transfer. In the absence...
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The Role of Role Uncertainty in Modified Dictator Games
Iriberri, Nagore; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
We compare behavior in modified dictator games with and without role uncertainty. Subjects choose between a selfish action, a costly surplus creating action (altruistic behavior) and a costly surplus destroying action (spiteful behavior). While costly surplus creating actions are most frequent...
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Elicited Beliefs and Social Information in Modified Dictator Games: What Do Dictators Believe Other Dictators Do?
Iriberri, Nagore; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
We use subjects actions in modified dictator games to perform a within-subject classification of individuals into four different types of interdependent preferences: Selfish, Social Welfare maximizers, Inequity Averse and Competitive. We elicit beliefs about other subjects actions in the same...
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