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field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …
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We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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for participants claiming warm glow as their primary motivation, its shape is increasing and concave. Nevertheless …
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experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
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This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of two different insurance products … ; savings ; informal risk sharing ; crowding out ; field lab experiment ; Philippines …
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altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
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Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...
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quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …
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We design a new field experiment to test pro-social behaviour: will a household return a letter that has been …
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