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Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

Lacetera, Nicola - 2011

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering …

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The Hidden Benefits of Control : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Landry, Craig E. - 2011

. Second, we can reject the pure altruism model of giving. Third, we find that public good provision is maximized in both the …

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An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science : With an Application to the Public Goods Game

Butera, Luigi - 2017

begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the …

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Compassion or Cash : Evaluating Survey Response Incentives and Valuing Public Goods

Smith, V. Kerry - 2015

This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … participate in a survey. By pairing the assessment with a natural field experiment, the analysis considers private versus public …

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Retirement Incentives and Expectations

Chan, Sewin - 2001

This paper investigates the responsiveness of individuals' retirement expectations to forward-looking measures of pension wealth accumulations. While most of the existing literature on retirement has used cross-sectional variation to identify the effects of pension and Social Security wealth on...

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The Behavioralist Goes to School : Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

Levitt, Steven D. - 2012

Research on behavioral economics has established the importance of factors such as reference dependent preferences, hyperbolic discounting, and the value placed on non-financial rewards. To date, these insights have had little impact on the way the educational system operates. Through a series...

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Cognitive Biases : Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

Enke, Benjamin; Genîzî, Ûrî; Hall, Brian J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives - as present in relevant economic decisions - on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely documented biases: base rate neglect, anchoring, failure...

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Teaching and Incentives : Substitutes or Complements?

Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, James; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

experiment to promote learning about COVID-19 among Mozambican adults, we study the interaction between a supply and a demand …

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Belief Elicitation : Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives

Danz, David - 2020

Belief elicitation is central to inference on economic decision making. The recently introduced Binarized Scoring Rule (BSR) is heralded for its robustness to individuals holding risk averse preferences and for its superior performance when eliciting beliefs. Consequently, the BSR has become the...

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Is Attention Produced Rationally?

Bronchetti, Erin T. - 2020

attentive and develop quantitative tests of rational inattention that we deploy in two experiments. The first is an experiment … and incentives to make plans to complete the modules. The second is an online survey-completion experiment (n=944), in … rationality, indicating that people underuse attention-increasing tools. In our second experiment, we estimate that individuals …

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