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particular, we analyze how horizontal fairness concerns affect performance and efficiency in an environment characterized by … contractual incompleteness. In our experiment, one principal is matched with two agents. The principal pays equal wages in one …
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paper, we test in a controlled field experiment whether apologizing in fluences customers' subsequent behavior. We find that … Experiment …
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endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …
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Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in solving coordination games that involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in the past studied such coordination games among socially distant anonymous players, here we study behaviour in a set of...
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It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put institutions in place that allow citizens to hold public servants to account, but citizens must participate in those institutions if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a...
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; lying costs ; representative experiment …
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another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment … of their budget, subjects change consumption according to the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this … Bracketing ; Field Experiment ; Laboratory Experiment …
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a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … literature; and a recruitment experiment that varied information provided in a typical e-mail recruitment procedure for lab … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …
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Using a specially designed experiment, we investigate whether and how interdependence in risk exposure i.e., risk …
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field experiment, ahead of the 2015 UK General Election, whereby postcards were sent to 7,679 unregistered students living …, were not effective in raising registration. In a separate experiment, the authors also showed that the differences in these …
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