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Effects of Retirement and Lifetime Earnings Profile on Health Investment

Bejarano, Hernán; Kaplan, Hillard; Rassenti, Stephen - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2014

aggregate life enjoyment. The key dynamic optimization challenge of the experiment to subjects derives from the fact that …

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Dynamic Optimization and Conformity in Health Behavior and Life Enjoyment over the Life Cycle

Bejarano, Hernán; Kaplan, Hillard; Rassenti, Stephen - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2014

consumption. We report the results of a lab experiment that mimics the problem of health investment over a lifetime, building on … Grossman’s (1972a, 1972b) theoretical framework. Subjects earn money through the experiment in proportion to the sum of the … period. In order to model social effects in the experiment, we randomly assigned individuals to chat/observation groups …

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Sharing as Risk Pooling in a Social Dilemma Experiment

Cherry, Todd L.; Howe, E. Lance; Murphy, James J. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015

affected member. In this paper, we describe results of a laboratory experiment designed to test whether a simple sharing …

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Can Markets Save Lives? An Experimental Investigation of a Market for Organ Donations

Deck, Cary; Kimbrough, Erik O. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2010

Many people die while waiting for organ transplants even though the number of usable organs is far larger than the number needed for transplant. Governments have devised many policies aimed at increasing available transplant organs with variable success. However, with few exceptions, policy...

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A Guided Tour to (Real-Life) Social Network Elicitation.

Branas-Garza, Pablo; Cobo-Reyes, Ramon; Jimenez, Natalia; … - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013

Limited attention has been devoted on how (real-life) social networks are elicited and mapped, even less from the viewpoint of mechanism design. This paper surveys the few mechanisms that have been proposed by the experimental literature to this purpose. These mechanisms differ in their...

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Sustaining Group Reputation.

Kimbrough, Erik O.; Rubin, Jared - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013

-group punishment. In this paper, we design a laboratory experiment to distinguish the roles of these two mechanisms in sustaining group …

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Information Effects in Multi-Unit Dutch Auctions

Buchanan, Joy A.; Gjerstad, Steven; Porter, David - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2012

This study compares bidding behavior in a multi-unit uniform-price descending price (Dutch) auction under four different information conditions. Bidders are either informed of the number of bidders in the auction, or know that it is one of two possible sizes; they also either know the number of...

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An Experiment on Protecting Intellectual Property

Buchanan, Joy A.; Wilson, Bart J. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2012

We conduct a laboratory experiment to explore whether the protection of intellectual property (IP) incentivizes people …

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The Meaning of Deceive in Experimental Economic Science

Wilson, Bart J. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2014

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Experimental Subjects are Not Different

Exadaktylos, Filippos; Espin, Antonio M.; Branas-Garza, … - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2012

social preferences, this study employs data from a survey experiment conducted with a representative sample of a city …

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