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neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged in actual decision making. The ability to make such …
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observable exogenous causes. We explore an alternative approach that generates predictions based on relationships across decision … experiment, we find that this method yields accurate estimates of price sensitivities for a collection of products under …
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We study experimentally when, why, and how people intervene in others’ choices. Choice Architects (CAs) construct opportunity sets containing bundles of time-indexed payments for Choosers. CAs frequently prevent impatient choices despite opportunities to provide advice, believing Choosers...
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"the will of the people." In an experiment, we elicit revealed attitudes toward ordinal preference aggregation and classify …
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Whether, and to what extent, behavioral anomalies uncovered in the lab manifest themselves in the field remains of first order importance in finance and economics. We begin by examining behavior of retail traders/investors making investment decisions in constructed laboratory markets. Our...
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What was once broadly viewed as an impossibility - learning from experimental data in economics - has now become commonplace. Governmental bodies, think tanks, and corporations around the world employ teams of experimental researchers to answer their most pressing questions. For their part, in...
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We use a theory of apologies to design a nationwide field experiment involving 1.5 million Uber ridesharing consumers … who experienced late rides. Several insights emerge from our field experiment. First, apologies are not a panacea: the …
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experiment in peri-urban Uganda, and compare output levels across 1000 workers over isomorphic tasks and incentives, framed as …
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experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly assigned peer significantly improves the quality of private decisions … transmits financial decision-making skills most effectively when peers are equally uninformed, rather than when an informed … decision maker teaches an uninformed peer. Qualitative analysis of subjects' discussions supports this interpretation. The …
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field experiment conducted across 10 U.S. cities to investigate if EEO statements in job advertisements affect the first …
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