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Overcoming time inconsistency with a matched bet : theory and evidence from exercising

Woerner, Andrej - 2023

This paper introduces the matched-bet mechanism. The matched bet is an easily applicable and strictly budget-balanced mechanism that aims to help people overcome time-inconsistent behavior. I show theoretically that offering a matched bet helps both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to...

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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence

Sakha, Sahra; Grohmann, Antonia - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...

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You cannot judge a book by its cover : evidence from a laboratory experiment on recognizing generosity from facial information

Cadsby, Charles Bram; Song, Fei; Du, Ninghua - 2020

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Peer effects of ambition

Albert, Philipp; Kübler, Dorothea; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana - 2019

Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of social influence on ambition in two distinct domains of achievement, namely performance goals and task complexity. In the first case, participants set themselves...

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The effect of social comparison on debt taking : experimental evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Koch, Melanie - 2019

A number of studies show that there is a link between social comparison and high levels of household debt. However, the exact mechanisms behind this link are not yet well understood. In this paper, we perform a lab experiment designed to study the eff ects of social image concerns and peer...

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Social interactions, information, and preferences for schools : experimental evidence from Los Angeles

Campos, Christopher - 2024

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The limits of social recognition : experimental evidence from blood donors

Götte, Lorenz; Tripodi, Egon - 2023

Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments at Italy's main blood donors …

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Social image, observer identity, and crowding up

Asulin, Yamit; Heller, Yuval; Munichor, Nira; Zultan, Ro'i - 2024

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How important is selection? experimental vs. non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration

McKenzie, David J. - 2006

"Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained …

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Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); Masclet, David (contributor) - 2008

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