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We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...
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There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
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on the back of previous prosocial or selfless behavior. The second is the direct touch effect, which describes the … game to check whether these effects also determine behavior in situ-ations with a different social norm. We find that this …
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To examine the effect of group size on the stability of prosocial behavior we used standard one-shot public good … feedback and using a payment mechanism promoting stable behavior, which allows the referral of all observed differences in the … dynamics of behavior to different group sizes. Our findings indicate that pairs are much better at establishing and stabilizing …
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either ambiguity neutrality or even ambiguity seeking behavior. Our results are robust to different elicitation procedures. …
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behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without information about others’ behavior. Subjects have to …
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eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of … impatience are found to be significant predictors of health-related field behavior, saving decisions and conduct at school. In … attitudes are only weak predictors of field behavior. …
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There is ample empirical evidence indicating that a substantial fraction of the population exhibits social preferences. Recent work also shows that social preferences influence the effectiveness of incentives in labor relations. Hence when making contracting decisions, employers should take into...
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We study the spillover effects of minimum wages in a laboratory experiment. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining setting, we find that the introduction of a minimum wage exerts upward pressure on wages even if the minimum wage is too low to be a binding restriction. Furthermore, raising the...
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the two placebo treatments. We conclude that we can use lab experiments to learn about behavior in situations that share …
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