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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program

Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...

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From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics

van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...

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Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments

Bellemare, Charles; Bissonnette, Luc; Kröger, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

usefulness of the approach in the context of field experiments on gift exchange. Our results suggest that a BS design requires … used in the literature. Our results suggest that adding experimental periods in an experiment can substantially increase …

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

's key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out – transparency negatively …

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The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation: An Empirical Investigation

Aghion, Philippe; Fehr, Ernst; Holden, Richard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo's subgame perfect …

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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations with and without bonuses awarded to the highest...

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Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment

Rosaz, Julie; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors … that guilt aversion plays a role. …

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Preferences for Consistency

Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

strength. We then present three experiments that study main predictions and implications of the model. The first is a simple … principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …

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Sealed Bid Auctions vs. Ascending Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study

Andersson, Christer; Andersson, Ola; Andersson, Tommy - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

This paper considers the sealed bid and ascending auction, which both identifies the minimum Walrasian equilibrium prices and where truthful preference revelation constitutes an equilibrium. Even though these auction formats share many theortical properties, there are behavioral aspects that are...

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