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 …

observability. A supplementary experiment asked students to make choices over hypothetical jobs before discussing their choices in …

We study the role of morality in debt repayment, using an experiment with the credit card customers of a large Islamic …

test for such behavior, we conducted an experiment in which 11th grade students were offered complimentary access to an … non-honors classes; which they happen to be sitting in when we arrive to conduct our experiment should be (and …

We explore the mechanics of empathy. In a controlled immersive virtual reality experiment, we show that neutral … experience as if one were 'in their shoes.' In a separate, incentivized experiment, we show that the same neutral information …

Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately …