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The effects of financial literacy training: Evidence from a field experiment in German high schools

Winter, Joachim; Lührmann, Melanie; Serra Garcia, Marta - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We report the results of a field experiment evaluating the impact of financial literacy training on teenagers between 14 and 16 years in German high schools. After the training, treated teenagers exhibit a significant increase in both interest in financial matters and self-assessed knowledge...

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Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients: Lessons from a randomized field experiment

Bütler, Monika; Deuchert, Eva; Lechner, Michael; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Disabled insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose benefits if labor incomes exceed certain thresholds (so called cash-cliffs ). The high implicit taxation of employment income is considered one of the prime reasons for the low outflow from the disability insurance. This paper presents the results of...

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Preferences and Exposure to Shocks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Palestine

Cavatorta, Elisa; Groom, Ben - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

We use a series of field experiments in the Palestinian Territories to explore the impact of exposure to shocks on risk, time and ambiguity preferences. We exploit the historical episode of the construction of the separation wall between the State of Israel and the West Bank as an exogenous...

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Timing of Kindness Evidence from a Field Experiment

Werner, Peter; Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers … that workers performance is about 11% higher for the same total wage when their wage is increased in two steps as opposed …

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Social Norms or Income Taxation - What Drives Couple's Labor Supply? Experimental Evidence

Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

We investigate the determinants of couples labor supply within an experimental setting. On the one hand, we are interested in the e ect of taxes on couples labor supply, but on the other hand we focus on factors beyond purely economic incentives: the role of the social norm of a male...

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Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Motivations for Tax Compliance. Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Germany

Dwenger, Nadja; Kleven, Henrik; Rasul, Imran; Rincke, … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

intrinsic motivations such as morals, norms and psychology? Agents may comply based on moral sentiments, social norms, guilt and …

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Do Self-Determined Wages Really Improve Employees Performance? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

right, while being paid the same wages as the first group. We find that performance is about 12% higher when employees self … performance decrease. An online follow-up survey reveals that the surprisingly high level of performance seems to be driven by …

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Multitasking and the Benefits of Objective Performance Measurement - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sliwka, Dirk; Manthei, Kathrin - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the … outset objective performance measures of pro fits in each branch were only available on the branch level and managers … to individual performance measures. We find a significant positive impact of objective performance measurement on effort …

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When Outcome Heterogeneously matters for Selection: a Generalized Selection Correction Estimator

Tauchmann, Harald; Reichert, Arndt - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

The classical Heckman (1976, 1979) selection correction estimator (heckit) is misspecified and inconsistent if an interaction of the outcome variable and an explanatory variable matters for selection. To address this specification problem, a full information maximum likelihood estimator and a...

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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...

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