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eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …
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participants in a laboratory experiment represent the preferences of the population from which they are recruited. To answer this … question, we measured the preferences of 1,173 students in a classroom experiment. Separately, we invited all students to … participate in a laboratory experiment. We find that the social and risk preferences of students who attend the laboratory …
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applied for welfare between January 1994 and March 1995. It turned out only 3,315 took part in the experiment despite a 50 … external validity of the experiment. We compare the estimated impact of the program using experimental data only to that … obtained using additional data on individuals not taking part in the experiment. We find strong evidence of non-response bias …
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Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...
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This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for …
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We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that applicants from negatively stereotyped groups face "attention discrimination": less attention in...
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We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our...
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This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of …
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Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …
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ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up …
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