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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...

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Concentration bias in intertemporal choice

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Gerhardt, Holger; Riener, Gerhard - 2021

disadvantages are dispersed over numerous periods. We provide novel experimental evidence for "concentration bias", the tendency to … days in exchange for a bonus that is concentrated in time: concentration bias increases subjects' willingness to work by 22 … monetary payments, we study the mechanisms behind concentration bias and demonstrate the robustness of our findings. …

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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? : the case of self-selected student samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2010

Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...

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A gift is not always a gift : gift exchange in a voucher experiment

Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011

Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...

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Managerial payoff and gift exchange in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen G. - 2012

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. The results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We collect information on...

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Timing of kindness : evidence from a field experiment

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2014 - This version: 26 June 2014

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers' performance is about 11% higher for...

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Hidden persuaders : do small gifts lubricate business negotiations?

Maréchal, Michel André; Thöni, Christian - 2016

Gift-giving customs are ubiquitous in social, political, and business life. Legal regulation and industry guidelines for gifts are often based on the assumption that large gifts have the potential to influence behavior and create conflicts of interest, but small gifts do not. However, scientific...

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Hidden persuaders : do small gifts lubricate business negotiations?

Maréchal, Michel André; Thöni, Christian - 2018

Gift-giving customs are ubiquitous in social, political, and business life. Legal regulation and industry guidelines for gifts are often based on the assumption that large gifts potentially influence behavior and create conflicts of interest, but small gifts do not. However, scientific evidence...

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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...

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Factorial designs, model selection, and (incorrect) inference in randomized experiments

Muralidharan, Karthik; Romero, Mauricio; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020

Factorial designs are widely used for studying multiple treatments in one experiment. While "long" model t-tests provide valid inferences, "short" model t-tests (ignoring interactions) yield higher power if interactions are zero, but incorrect inferences otherwise. Of 27 factorial experiments...

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