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In an experimental setup we investigate the effect of defaults on charitable giving. In the treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a default list of five wellknown charities; in the control group we do not provide the list. In a sample of 869...
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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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a longitudinal experiment, subjects make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real-effort tasks for varying …
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). In this paper we address this question by using a measure of costly cooperation elicited in a laboratory experiment to … laboratory experiments with 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. The experiment use a version of the …
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Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. Our study questions the universality of these claims. We employ a novel four-party setup to disentangle the roles that...
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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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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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We conduct a field trust game under a natural experiment context to test the impacts of urbanisation on trust. We …-led urbanisation. We also run a regression on the trust exhibited towards participants in the experiment and found the partial effect …
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Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of behavioral contagion, in particular with respect to differences in contagion of pro- versus anti-social behavior. Our principal contribution is the use of a novel experimental approach that enables us to analyze the contagion of behavior under...
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results of a meta-study of the literature and a new experiment. Our meta-study is based on 19 experimental studies conducted … the direction of the effect of the intervention. We design a new experiment that is not vulnerable to this potential … intuitive and deliberative systems. Taken together, the findings of our meta-study and the new experiment offer little support …
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