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legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …
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Choosing between selfish and non-selfish behavior in real life is a repeated decision with varying time spans between …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …
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acting on them. We implement the first experiment that is able to address a potential causal relationship between self …
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-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in …
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This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
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Research on public-good games reveals greater contributions by fast decision-makers than by slow decision …, we find that fast decision-makers give more than slow decision-makers when the equilibrium is below the mid-point of the …. Consistent with mistakes decreasing with decision time, we find that individuals who make (or have to make) fast decisions are …
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We propose a technique for assessing robustness of behavioral measures and treatment effects to experimenter demand effects. The premise is that by deliberately inducing demand in a structured way we can measure its influence and construct plausible bounds on demand-free behavior. We provide...
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for …
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The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates … misperceptions of probability drive the favorite-longshot bias, as suggested by Prospect Theory …
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