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Does It Pay To Pray? Evaluating the Economic Return to Religious Ritual

Sosis, Richard; Ruffle, Bradley - The Field Experiments Website - 2004

Time-consuming and costly religious rituals pose a puzzle for economists committed to rational choice theories of human behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective-action problems. To test this hypothesis we design field...

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Anonymity in Giving in a Natural Context-A Field Experiment in Thirty Churches

Soetevent, Adriaan R. - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

The role of anonymity in giving is examined in a field experiment performed in thirty Dutch churches. For a period of …

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Using Cross-Cultural Experiments to Understand the Dynamics of a Global Commons

Carpenter, Jeff; Seki, Erika - The Field Experiments Website - 2002

on a field experiment conducted with workers from a fishing community in Toyama Bay, Japan. Our participants are employed … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison; Leigh, Andrew - The Field Experiments Website - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

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Sexual orientation discrimination in hiring

Weichselbaumer, Doris - The Field Experiments Website - 2003

Little research has been done to examine discrimination against gays and lesbians in the labor market. Wage regressions … women are striking but can be reconciled with the existence of labor market discrimination, however. Problems like sample … responsible for their higher earnings. To investigate whether discrimination against lesbians actually does exist, a labor market …

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On Representative Social Capital

Bellemare, Charles; Kroger, Sabine - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

sustain social capital by their propensity to invest and reward investments by means of an economic experiment. We have three … presence of social norms. Third, we compare our results with a laboratory experiment conducted with a student sample. We find …

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Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents

Sosis, Richard; Ruffle, Bradley - The Field Experiments Website - 2006

. Despite its role in hiring decisions and job discrimination, negotiations, and conflict and competition between groups …

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Choice Under Uncertainty in Developing Countries

Harrison, Glenn W.; Humphrey, Steven J. - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

We review experimental evidence collected from risky choice experiments using poor subjects in Ethiopia, India and Uganda. Using these data we estimate that just over 50% of our sample behaves in accordance with expected utility theory and that the rest subjectively weight probability according...

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Know Thyself: Incompetence and Overconfidence

Ferraro, Paul J. - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

Economic analyses of asymmetric information typically start with the assumption that individuals know more about their own characteristics than outside observers. This assumption implies that individuals can accurately assess their own competence in a given domain. However, individuals can only...

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Microfinance Games

Gine, Xavier; Jakiela, Pamela; Karlan, Dean; Morduch, … - The Field Experiments Website - 2006

Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. From a theoretical perspective, however, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and...

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