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experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition …
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Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
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issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable (“belief-based”) protection indeed leads to more reports, both …
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experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks …
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Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future consumption have direct utility consequences. This gives rise to informational preferences, i.e., preferences over the timing and structure of information. Using a novel and...
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Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...
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voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed … equilibrium into a coordination game with a set of Pareto-superior equilibria. Thresholds may therefore improve efficiency in the …. We test if thresholds perform better if they are endogenously chosen, i.e. if a threshold is approved in a referendum …
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We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects … job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment …
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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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-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in …
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