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Falk, Armin; Ichino, Andrea - The Field Experiments Website - 2003

While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility of using observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments over the potential for obtaining clean evidence. In this paper we measure the output of subjects who were asked to stuff letters into envelopes, with a...

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What do people bring into the game? experiments in the field about cooperation in the commons

Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Ostrom, Elinor - The Field Experiments Website - 2004

The study of collective action requires an understanding of the individual incentives and of the institutional … benefit from a joint-access local ecosystem, and associated with the institutional incentives and constraints from both self … from the material incentives that the specific production function imposes, to the dynamics of the game, to the composition …

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Measuring Altruistic Behavior in Surveys: The All-or-Nothing Dictator Game

Bekkers, Rene - The Field Experiments Website - 2007

A field study of altruistic behaviour is presented using a modification of the dictator game in a large random sample survey in the Netherlands (n=1,964). In line with laboratory experiments, only 5.7% donated money. In line with other survey research on giving, generosity increased with age,...

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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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Demand Reduction in a Multi-Unit Auctions with Varying Numbers of Bidders: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Richard; List, John A.; Reiley, David - The Field Experiments Website - 2006

for debt sales, entail demand-reduction incentives that can cause inefficient allocations. Recent experimental results …

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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Falk, Armin - The Field Experiments Website - 2004

This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters contained no gift, one third contained a small...

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Using Choice Experiments to Value Non-Market Goods and Services: Evidence from Field Experiments

List, John A.; Sinha, Paramita; Taylor, Michael H. - The Field Experiments Website

Critics of stated preference methods argue that hypothetical bias precludes survey techniques from providing reliable economic values for non-market goods and services, rendering estimation of the total economic benefits of public programs fruitless. This paper explores a relatively new...

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Gift Exchange within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bellemare, Charles - The Field Experiments Website - 2007

We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting...

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Testing Whether Field Auction Experiments are Demand Revealing in Practice

Corrigan, Jay R.; Rousu, Matthew C. - The Field Experiments Website - 2008

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Estimating the Value Consumers Derive from Product Labeling

Rousu, Matthew C.; Corrigan, Jay R. - The Field Experiments Website - 2008

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