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Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms : Experimental Evidence from India

Duflo, Esther - 2013

creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought …

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Optimal Inequality/Optimal Incentives : Evidence from a Tournament

Freeman, Richard B. - 2006

success in the tournament. Finally, we find that cheating/fudging on the experiment responds to the level of inequality and …

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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Cognitive Biases : Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

Enke, Benjamin; Genîzî, Ûrî; Hall, Brian J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives - as present in relevant economic decisions - on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely documented biases: base rate neglect, anchoring, failure...

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Teaching and Incentives : Substitutes or Complements?

Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, James; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

experiment to promote learning about COVID-19 among Mozambican adults, we study the interaction between a supply and a demand …

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Belief Elicitation : Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives

Danz, David - 2020

Belief elicitation is central to inference on economic decision making. The recently introduced Binarized Scoring Rule (BSR) is heralded for its robustness to individuals holding risk averse preferences and for its superior performance when eliciting beliefs. Consequently, the BSR has become the...

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Is Attention Produced Rationally?

Bronchetti, Erin T. - 2020

attentive and develop quantitative tests of rational inattention that we deploy in two experiments. The first is an experiment … and incentives to make plans to complete the modules. The second is an online survey-completion experiment (n=944), in … rationality, indicating that people underuse attention-increasing tools. In our second experiment, we estimate that individuals …

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Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians : Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020

In 2010, we informed a random set of Delhi councilors, some ineligible for re-election in their current ward, that a newspaper would report on their performance shortly prior to the 2012 city elections. Using slum dwellers' spending preferences, we created a councilor-specific index of pro-poor...

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Financial Incentives and Student Achievement : Evidence from Randomized Trials

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2010

This paper describes a series of school-based randomized trials in over 250 urban schools designed to test the impact of financial incentives on student achievement. In stark contrast to simple economic models, our results suggest that student incentives increase achievement when the rewards are...

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The Behavioralist Visits the Factory : Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations

Hossain, Tanjim - 2009

worker productivity in the facility. Using a natural field experiment, we report several insights. For example, conditional …

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