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The endowment effect in the general population

Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea - 2022

We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...

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Relative performance feedback and long-term tasks : experimental evidence from higher education

Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, Robert - 2023

We present first experimental evidence that relative performance feedback improves both the speed and quality with which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated course credits accelerates graduation by 0.12 SD, and...

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Helping students to succeed : the long-term effects of soft commitments and reminders

Brade, Raphael; Himmler, Oliver; Jäckle, Robert; … - 2024

To study whether a soft commitment device can help students succeed, we conduct a randomized field experiment and …

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Foundations for intertemporal choice

Al-Nowaihi, Ali; Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2018

We consider discounted-utility models with a reference stream of outcomes. We provide a common framework for the main empirically supported discount functions in terms of three underlying functions: The delay, speedup and generating functions. Each of the delay and speedup functions can be...

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School choice and loss aversion

Meisner, Vincent; Wangenheim, Jonas von - 2021

Evidence suggests that participants in direct student-proposing deferred-acceptance mechanisms (DA) play dominated strategies. To explain the data, we introduce expectation-based loss aversion into a school-choice setting and characterize choice-acclimating personal equilibria in DA. We find...

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When do teachers respond to student feedback? : evidence from a field experiment

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2020

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …

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Defaults and donations : evidence from a field experiment

Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2014

We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that …

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When nudges fail to scale : field experimental evidence from goal setting on mobile phones

Löschel, Andreas; Rodemeier, Matthias; Werthschulte, … - 2020

Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology ("nudges") have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...

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Nudging when the descriptive norm is low : evidence from a carbon offsetting field experiment

Carattini, Stefano; Blasch, Julia - 2020

field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants …

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Closing the gender STEM gap : a large-scale randomize-controlled trial in elementary schools

Grosch, Kerstin; Haeckl, Simone; Kocher, Martin - 2022

We examine individual-level determinants of interest in STEM and analyze whether a digital web application for elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a randomized-controlled trial with experimental lab and...

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