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I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
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-nudge interventions worked. A follow-up experiment reveals the reason for these convincing null-effects: the information norm-nudges did …
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This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability …
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dichotomy. Our own experiment is the first to look beyond 4th order risk preferences and we examine risk attitudes at even …
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Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model...
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experiment, reduces evasion, as predicted by our theory. Loss aversion, risk aversion, and their interaction, are critical …
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We experimentally study the impact of framing effects in a repeated sequential social dilemma game. Our between-subjects design consists of two group level (“Wall Street” vs. “Community”) and two individual level (“First (Second) Movers” vs. “Leaders (Followers)”) frames. We find...
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Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work in forging information, we present a...
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While World War II (WWII) is often employed as natural experiment to identify long-term effects of adverse early …
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bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In … partnership with one of India’s largest carpet producers, we offered a weaving job to 495 married women. We randomized whether job …
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