In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of … equally well as individuals from better performing groups. Our experiment leaves room neither for statistical nor taste …-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should …Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either theoretically or … garner more money than winner-pay auctions. We conduct field experiments to test which sealed bid format, first price, second …

that never yield an efficient allocation. Moreover, our results extend the efficiency of auction mechanisms to an …

-making in the market also creates positive knowledge spillovers for post-market individual performance in solving new Wason …

controlling for a possible source of a consensus effect. All models are estimated using data from an experiment of proposal and …

We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …