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eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …
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Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults playing in the Swedish version of the TV-shows Jeopardy and Junior Jeopardy. Although facing the same well-known high-stakes game, and controlling for performance differences,...
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is consistent with prospect theory predictions of the adoption of a risk-seeking attitude after a loss. …
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This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability …
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This paper exploits a large dataset of replications of the Holt and Laury (2002) risk elicitation task to study a possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the experimental literature according to which women are more prudent...
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often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly … first, low-cost pass at empirical evaluation, we conduct an experiment among farmers in the Ethiopian highlands, a region …
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among high-school students and intertemporal choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who …
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-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants’ preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...
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elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …
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