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Ends versus Means : Kantians, Utilitarians, and Moral Decisions
Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...
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Overcoming Behavioral Impediments to Maternal Care : Experimental Evidence on Domain Knowledge and Nudgeability from Recalcitrant Pakistan
Cyan, Musharraf Rasool; Cesur, Resul; Civelek, Yasin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conducted a large-scale field experiment to calibrate phone messaging to its potential of overcoming behavioral …
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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 … pattern of risk attitudes described by Kahneman and Tversky. In addition, we document a systematic effect of stake sizes on …
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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
randomization approach with a random-effects latent utility model to detect bias and account for error. Data from a choice … experiment in South Africa shows that significant order effects exist which, if uncorrected, would lead to distorted conclusions …
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Age and the labor market for Hispanics in the United States
Lahey, Joanna; Mosquera, Roberto M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments. We find, in general, that the differences in outcomes for Hispanic and...
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The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior : Conceptualization and Application
Dekel, Inbal; Cummings, Rachel; Heffetz, Ori; Ligett, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
estimating the privacy elasticity of public-good contributions in a lab experiment …
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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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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...
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Anti-social norms
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Guerra, José-Alberto; Robinson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is critical to achieving desirable social outcomes. Social norms may underpin such behavior, but they can also undermine it. We study one such norm the "don't be a toad" norm, as it...
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Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?
List, John - 2009
Are individuals expected utility maximizers? This question represents much more than academic curiosity. In a normative … utility maximization paradigm literally the only game in town. In this study, we advance the literature by exploring CEO … that both our CEO and student subject pools exhibit frequent and large departures from expected utility theory. In addition …
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