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Valuing the time of the self-employed
Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - 2022
People’s value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...
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Meta-analysis of inequality aversion estimates
Nunnari, Salvatore; Pozzi, Maximilian Joseph - 2022
) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26 articles in economics, psychology, neuroscience and computer … interval [0:240; 0:620]; the mean guilt coefficient is 0:290 with a 95% probability that the true value lies in the interval [0 …
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Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Arshad, Junaid; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2019
either privately, or publicly in front of one's social group. Our theoretical model identifies guilt from letting down the … large treatment effects and confirms the central roles of guilt and shame. Under private repayment, a JL contract increases … compared to guilt-aversion. Under IL, repayment in public relative to private repayment increases effort by 60%, confirming our …
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The introduction of formal insurance and its effect on redistribution
Anderberg, Dan; Morsink, Karlijn - 2019
Transfers motivated by altruism, norms of giving, and guilt play an important role in supporting individuals who suffer … norm of giving where donors feel guilty for deviating from the norm. The feelings of guilt decline with the expected social …
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The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices
Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2014
We examine the impact of a large high-school financial education program on the intertemporal choices of adolescents. We randomly assigned the program among a sample of almost 1,000 students and measured their intertemporal choices using an incentivized experiment. While intertemporal choices in...
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Talk or text? : evaluating response rates by remote survey method during Covid-19
Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Domínguez, Patricio; … - 2022
Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...
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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
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2020
Tax compliance nudges are used increasingly by governments because of their perceived cost-effectiveness in raising tax revenue. We collect about a thousand treatment effect estimates from 45 randomized controlled trials, and synthesize this rapidly growing literature using meta-analytical...
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Nudging when the descriptive norm is low : evidence from a carbon offsetting field experiment
Carattini, Stefano; Blasch, Julia - 2020
Nudges and behavioral interventions have become a popular tool to stimulate prosocial behavior. Little is known, however, on how to design effective social interventions in contexts in which the descriptive norm is low, i.e. when a desirable behavior is only practiced by a minority within the...
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