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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a … non-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a natural field experiment (n>1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597694
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Lab in the field : measuring preferences in the wild
Genîzî, Ûrî; Imas, Alex - 2016
In this chapter, we discuss the "lab-in-the-field" methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489364
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Financial literacy, risk and time preferences : results from a randomized educational intervention
Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2020
We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012260969
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Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior : a randomized educational intervention
Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023
We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261310
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Free-riding in the lab and in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2011
To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314547
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Incentives to vaccinate
Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2024
questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074579
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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2011
eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375050
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Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability?
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
; time preference ; cognitive ability ; field experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833308
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021
Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668493