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This paper outlines a method of procuring the benefits of deception in experiments without actually deceiving subjects …
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evidence of a misplaced desire to ape the methods of natural sciences? It is often argued that economic experiments are …
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This paper presents a methodology to study the identification of the content of focal points (Schelling 1960). This question is important for external validity and operationalising theories of decision making (e.g. team-reasoning and level-k). Choices implied by different concepts are mapped...
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We investigate the methodology used in a significant genre of experimental economics, in which experiments are designed …
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Recent papers hypothesize that an asymmetry in regret motivates aggressive bidding in laboratory first-price auctions. Subjects emphasize potential earnings foregone from being outbid. Proposed motivators of this asymmetry include the one-to-one relationship in the auction between winning and...
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We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...
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Do the insights into human behavior generated by laboratory experiments hold outside the lab? This is the crucial …
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Intra-household efficiency is tested by using experimental data from variants of a public good game from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses frequently do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge of allocating the common pool. Women contribute...
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evidence of a misplaced desire to ape the methods of natural sciences? It is often argued that economic experiments are …
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experimentalist, I am convinced that experiments do have the potential to make a significant contribution to knowledge in economics. …
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