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Knowing what works : the case for rigorous program evaluation
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
terms that the construction of a credible counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation … problem. It introduces several approaches, based on both experiments and on non-experimental data, that have been proposed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316914
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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
, the construction of a credible counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation problem. Even … when controlled experiments are not a viable option, appropriate approaches might succeed where traditional empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405210
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418877
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Using ethical dilemmas to predict antisocial choices with real payoff consequences : an experimental study
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2018
problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872604
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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
differences between men and women, can provide a plausible explanation. We conduct an experiment on a Dutch online survey panel to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346565
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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488294
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The role of leaders in inducing and maintaining cooperation: the CC strategy
Kosfeld, Michael - 2019
I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062918
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Cognitive abilities and the demand for bad policy
Nunnari, Salvatore; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2024
simple theoretical framework and an experiment to show that enhanced cognitive abilities may lead to better policy choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580740
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A novel computerized real effort task based on sliders
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2011
the task will prove valuable to researchers in designing future real effort experiments, and to this end we provide z … laboratory experiments ; learning and time effects ; Individual heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309478
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Discrimination as favoritism : the private benefits and social costs of in-group favoritism in an experimental labor market
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Peterlé, Emmanuel - 2017
In this paper, we examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design that can shed light on both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621487