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In this paper we propose the use of <I>preferred outcome</I> distributions as a new method to elicit individuals' value and probability weighting functions in decisions under risk. Extant approaches for the elicitation of these two key ingredients of individuals' risk attitude typically rely on a long,...</i>
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In experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability—the implicit or explicit expectation of a decision maker that she may have to justify her decisions in front of somebody else—is often confounded with the incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability...
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This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...
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paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the …
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-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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that both forces are at play. We conduct a natural field experiment where, in a randomly assigned part of a residential …
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-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
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-85.<P> In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving … laboratory, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
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experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are manipulated and …
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