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Tournament Incentives in The Field: Gender Differences in The Workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

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Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This study uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to examine the impact of different payment options on …

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Grow rich while you sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation

Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …

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Bidding to give in the Field: Door-to-Door Fundraisers had it right from the Start

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.C.; Soetevent, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …

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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay: A Field Experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative …

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‘Let me dream on!’ Anticipatory Emotions and Preference for Timing in Lotteries

Kocher, Martin; Krawczyk, Michal; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with real lottery tickets. We show that our theoretical considerations may …

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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments

Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the …

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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially …

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Deal or No Deal? Decision-making under Risk in a Large-payoff Game Show

Post, Thierry; Baltussen, Guido; Assem, Martijn van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We examine the risky choices of contestants in the popular TV game show “Deal or No Deal” and related classroom experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion...

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Do Experts' SKU Forecasts improve after Feedback?

Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We analyze the behavior of experts who quote forecasts for monthly SKU-level sales data where we compare data before and after the moment that experts received different kinds of feedback on their behavior. We have data for 21 experts located in as many countries who make SKU-level forecasts for...

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