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Measuring and Changing Control : Women’s Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
Almås, Ingvild - 2015
This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456953
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The Endowment Effect
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli - 2013
The endowment effect is among the best known findings in behavioral economics, and has been used as evidence for theories of reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion. However, a recent literature has questioned the robustness of the effect in the laboratory, as well as its relevance in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459277
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Eliciting Willingness-to-Pay to Decompose Beliefs and Preferences that Determine Selection into Competition in Lab Experiments
Chen, Yvonne Jie; Dutz, Deniz; Li, Li; Moon, Sarah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper develops a partial-identification methodology for analyzing self-selection into alternative compensation schemes in a laboratory environment. We formulate a model of self-selection in which individuals select the compensation scheme with the largest expected valuation, which depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447251
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Cognitive Imprecision and Stake-Dependent Risk Attitudes
Khaw, Mel Win; Li, Ziang; Woodford, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In an experiment that elicits subjects' willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388772
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Multiple Price Lists for Willingness to Pay Elicitation
Jack, B. Kelsey; McDermott, Kathryn; Sautmann, Anja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
experiment in South Africa shows that significant order effects exist which, if uncorrected, would lead to distorted conclusions …
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Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete
Dee, Thomas S. - 2009
. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463942
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Overconfidence, Subjective Perception and Pricing Behavior
Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2006
We study the implications of a particular form of irrationality on the pricing behavior of firms in a monopolistic-competitive market with incomplete information. We assume that firms are overconfident, meaning that they over-estimate their abilities to understand the correct model of the...
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The Hidden Benefits of Control : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Landry, Craig E. - 2011
An important dialogue between theorists and experimentalists over the past few decades has raised the study of the interaction of psychological and economic incentives from academic curiosity to a bona fide academic field. One recent area of study within this genre that has sparked interest and...
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The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluation
Aksoy, Billur; Exley, Christine L.; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender minorities are less confident and provide less favorable...
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Status Goods : Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017
platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, we show that demand for the platinum card greatly … social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status … goods. The final experiment shows that increasing self-esteem causally reduces demand for status goods. We infer that part …
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