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This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness …
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This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for … charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters …
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A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...
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We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
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Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …
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