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Do agents believe to be agreeing more with others in the long-run? This paper designs an experiment to study how … disagreement regardless of cognitive ability. Learning about the state of the world has little effect on the evolution of perceived …
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ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account …-game learning for cognitively less able participants but does not affect overbidding for the cognitively more able. Vice versa …, 'cross-game learning' may rather be understood as 'cross-game transfer', as it has the potential to benefit bidders with …
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We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small …-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We … find that active learning has a positive and economically meaningful impact on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast …
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We investigate experimentally whether social learners appreciate the redundancy of information conveyed by their observed predecessors' actions. Each participant observes a private signal and enters an estimate of the sum of all earlier-moving participants' signals plus her own. In a first...
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We demonstrate in a laboratory experiment in which subjects play a two-player Cournot-Tullock game over hundreds of … periods of varying length that full accounts of subjects' learning requires the consideration of, both, 'period time' and …
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that are extracted from a classroom experiment. We find that more-loss-averse students leave more questions unanswered and … evidence that loss aversion parameters extracted from lottery choices in a controlled experiment have predictive power in a … over time, as the experiment was conducted three months prior to the exam. We also find important differences across …
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We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort in a panel survey of students of a large university …
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Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...
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enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher … average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The evidence points to students making pre-college choices that caused … this divergence. Using linked survey-administrative data, we present evidence consistent with students being averse to …
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