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Reference-Dependent Preferences : Evidence from Marathon Runners

Allen, Eric J. - 2014

Models of reference-dependent preferences propose that individuals evaluate outcomes as gains or losses relative to a neutral reference point. We test for reference dependence in a large dataset of marathon finishing times (n = 9,524,071). Models of reference-dependent preferences such as...

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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

List, John A. - 2017

's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a large-scale natural field experiment to connect CSR to an important but often …

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Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents? : Evidence from Micro-Level Application Data

Frakes, Michael D. - 2014

We explore how examiner behavior is altered by the time allocated for reviewing patent applications. Insufficient examination time may hamper examiner search and rejection efforts, leaving examiners more inclined to grant invalid applications. To test this prediction, we use application-level...

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Information and Credible Sanctions in Curbing Online Cheating Among Undergraduates : a Field Experiment

Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The rapid increase in online instruction in higher education has heightened concerns about cheating. We use a randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test whether informing students they have been caught cheating...

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Memory and Probability

Bordalo, Pedro; Conlon, John; Gennaioli, Nicola; Kwon, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

People often estimate probabilities, such as the likelihood that an insurable risk will materialize or that an Irish person has red hair, by retrieving experiences from memory. We present a model of this process based on two established regularities of selective recall: similarity and...

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The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives

Pierce, Lamar - 2020

evidence of these concerns in a nationwide field experiment among 294 car dealers. Dealers randomized into loss-framed (but …

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Dishonest Behavior : Sin Big or Go Home

Aimone, Jason A. - 2019

Economic agents face many different types of economic incentives when making financial and moral decisions. We provide experimental data from a population that uniquely responds to incentives to lie compared to previously studied populations. We conduct a standard 6-sided die rolling lying study...

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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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Observational Learning : Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

Cai, Hongbin - 2007

' behavior and subjective well-being in the context of restaurant dining from a randomized natural field experiment. Our …

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Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments : A Case Study of the Winner's Curse

Harrison, Glenn W. - 2007

There has been a dramatic increase in the use of experimental methods in the past two decades. An oft-cited reason for this rise in popularity is that experimental methods provide the necessary control to estimate treatment effects in isolation of other confounding factors. We examine the...

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