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A core element of economic theory is the assumption of stable preferences. We test this assumption in public goods games by repeatedly eliciting cooperation preferences in a fixed subject pool over a period of five months. We find that cooperation preferences are very stable at the aggregate...
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Many people contribute to public goods but stop doing so once they experience free riding. We test the hypothesis that groups whose members know that they are composed only of ‘like-minded’ cooperators are able to maintain a higher cooperation level than the most cooperative,...
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We study first- and second-order subjective expectations (beliefs) in strategic decisionmaking.We propose a method to … elicit probabilistically both first- and second-order beliefs and apply the method to a Hide-and-Seek experiment. We study … the relationship between choice and beliefs in terms of whether observed choice coincides with the optimal action given …
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We study the role of reciprocity in a labor market field experiment. In a recent paper, Gneezy and List (2006 …. Extending their work to examine both positive and negative reciprocity, we find consonant evidence in the positive reciprocity … condition: the gift does not work well in the long run (if at all). Yet, in the negative reciprocity treatment we observe much …
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A substantive amount of lab experimental evidence suggests that the norm of reciprocity has important economic … consequences. However, it is unclear whether the norm of reciprocity survives in a natural and competitive environment with … managers boosts sales revenue substantially, which is consistent with the notion of reciprocity. However, the results underline …
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Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
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It is a major achievement of the econometric treatment effect literature to clarify under which conditions causal effects are non-parametrically identified. The first part of this chapter focuses on the static treatment model. In this part, I show how panel data can be used to improve the...
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This note argues that nonparametric regression not only relaxes functional form assumptions vis-a-vis parametric regression, but that it also permits endogenous control variables. To control for selection bias or to make an exclusion restriction in instrumental variables regression valid,...
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In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...
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In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE) is extended to incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average treatment effects is appealing since their identification relies on much weaker assumptions than the...
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