usefulness of the approach in the context of field experiments on gift exchange. Our results suggest that a BS design requires …

experiments designed to test the ways in which incentive mechanisms influence the use of a particular heuristic in decision …

patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …

Field experiments that involve nested structures may assign treatment conditions either to entire groups (such as … classrooms or schools), or individuals within groups (such as students). Since field experiments involve clustering, key aspects …

During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest …

paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find …

Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a … smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time of retirement can account for this pattern … consumption expenditure at retirement generated by the model is zero, while the mean is negative, matching the HRS data. However …